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0:00 Intro

6:53 Early days on Warpcast (Farcaster)

10:38 Onboarding challenges and UX on Warpcast

15:43 Farcaster vs Lens

20:45 Building community and personal brand

29:37 Challenges in community building

34:57 Creator monetization and community engagement

37:20 Warpcast vs Twitter

48:23 Questions from Twitter and Warpcast

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Rehash Hot Ones Bangkok Pt 2 w/Simona Pop, Nichanan Kesonpat, Spencer Graham, and Dawufi

Dawufi, Simona Pop, Diana Chen, Spencer Graham, Nichanan Kesonpat — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:48:13 +0000

This special live edition of Rehash was recorded during Devcon7 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Your panelists are Simona Pop (Optimism Foundation, ENS), Nichanan Kesonpat (1kx), Spencer Graham (Hats Protocol), and Dawufi (Opacity Labs). We also had special appearances from Dr. Nick, Scottrepreneur, and Disruption Joe.

Watch them eat spicier and spicier foods while trying to simultaneously give spicier and spicier takes on various topics in crypto like wallets, governance, decentralization, and how to achieve the next breakthrough in crypto.

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S10 BONUS | Crypto 2024 Reflections & 2025 Predictions w/Hudson Jameson, Maya Bakhai, and Stefen Deleveaux

Maya Bakhai, Diana Chen, Hudson Jameson, Stefen Deleveaux — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:18:24 +0000

On this bonus episode of Season 10, we bring back some of your favorite Rehash guests from the past to share their perspectives on what happened in 2024 and what they are most bullish on moving forward to 2025. Hudson Jameson (S6 E5), Maya Bakhai (S5 E3), and Stefen Deleveaux (S2 E11) join us to wrap up the year from a wide array of perspectives, including AI, memecoins, rollups and altVMs, consumer apps, DePIN, DAOs, and Solana.

This episode was a lot of fun to record and hopefully just as fun to listen to. It’s filled with great insights as well that, when combined, paint a holistic picture of where the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems stand today.

To hear these guests’ predictions from last year, tune into our end of year wrap up from one year ago here.

Stay tuned for announcements on upcoming guest elections for Season 11 and fun new plans for the new year. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring Rehash, please check out rehashweb3.xyz/sponsor for more information or reach out at rehashweb3@gmail.com.

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3:20 Reflections on 2024 crypto trends

26:44 Insights on what to expect in crypto in 2025

42:51 Predictions for 2025

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Role Call Ep 5: Developmental Processes for Decentralized Communities w/Dan Hunt

David Ehrlichman, Diana Chen, Dan Hunt, Nick Naraghi — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Role Call is a 6-part miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehash and co-hosted by Hats Protocol.

In our fifth episode of Role Call, co-hosts Diana Chen, Nick Naraghi, and David Ehrlichman speak with Dan Hunt about the importance of decentralization, the role of community and organizing in building effective DAOs, and the integration of AI agents to simplify and enhance organizational processes.

We talk about our experiences with developing trust and managing power in decentralized organizations, as well as the intricacies of scaling DAOs, including an emphasis on the essential role of human-centric practices like meditation and mindfulness in navigating some of these complexities.

Finally, we briefly touch on the evolving role of AI in the decentralization space and the potential for groundbreaking advancements in organizational coordination.

⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
5:45 The importance of decentralization
8:09 Challenges in decentralized organizations
10:06 Human elements in decentralized systems
14:50 Self-selection and mutual support in DAOs
19:15 Intersubjective compensation process
27:09 Power dynamics in decentralized organizations
35:32 Scaling decentralized communities
44:29 AI agents and organizational scaling
48:26 Integrating AI for collective intelligence
52:23 Progressive automation and decentralization
1:04:51 Follow Dan

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Rehash Hot Ones Bangkok Pt 1 w/Jim Chang, David Phelps, and Grant Gerber

Diana Chen — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This special live edition of Rehash was recorded during Devcon7 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Your panelists are Jim Chang (CrossCats), David Phelps (JokeRace), and Grant Gerber (Movement Labs).

Watch them eat spicier and spicier foods while trying to simultaneously give spicier and spicier takes on various topics in crypto like altVMs, casinos, and AI.

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0:00 Intro
1:16 Learn more about our sponsors: CrossCats and Safe
7:21 AI x Crypto
17:56 Casinos and gambling
31:09 Ethereum vs altVMs
42:01 Winner announced
46:00 David gets thrown in the pool

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Role Call Ep 4: The Future of Decentralized Collaboration w/Andreas (Fileverse)

Andreas, Nick Naraghi, Diana Chen, Spencer Graham — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:34:47 +0000

Role Call is a 6-part miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehash and co-hosted by Hats Protocol.

In our fourth episode of Role Call, co-hosts Diana Chen, Nick Naraghi, and Spencer Graham speak with Andreas, founder of Fileverse, about how Fileverse aims to solve issues of centralized knowledge management by offering decentralized, privacy-preserving alternatives like ddocs, how to balance privacy with transparency onchain, and the future of interoperable decentralized applications in creating a new era of collaborative knowledge production.

⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
1:42 What is Fileverse?
5:08 Tradeoffs between privacy and transparency
10:27 Role of blockchain in permission management
15:48 Challenges and innovations in Fileverse
26:59 Future of decentralized collaboration
51:48 Follow Andreas and Fileverse

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S10 E8 | A New Era for Decentralized Exchanges w/Andy Boyan & Andrew Redden (Hypurr Finance)

Andy Boyan, Andrew Redden, Diana Chen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Andy Boyan and Andrew Redden about their latest project, Hypurr Finance, a lending platform built for Hyperliquid and on the HyperEVM.

Hyperliquid recently executed one of the largest and most successful airdrops in crypto history, and we start the episode by unpacking the strategy and impacts behind that and the LAST team’s rationale behind building HypurrFi on HyperEVM.

We also talked about the future of DeFi, the impact of decentralization, and the new dynamics in cryptocurrency ecosystems.

Andy previously appeared on Rehash in S4 E3 | Rules of Game Design w/Andy Boyan.

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0:00 Intro

2:04 How Andy and Andrew got on the pod

6:22 Hyperliquid airdrop

11:09 What are perpetual exchanges and spot exchanges?

14:10 Why was Hyperliquid so successful?

19:54 Impact of Hyperliquid’s airdrop

28:40 Introducing Hypurr Finance for the first time

30:37 Mission and incentive models of LAST

35:44 Concerns with HyperEVM

38:30 The future of blockchain and crypto

43:19 HypurrFi launch and testnet details

44:19 Predictions for crypto in 2025

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Role Call Ep 3: The Biggest Governance Mistakes DAOs Make w/Justine Humenansky (Optimism)

Justine Humenansky, Spencer Graham, Diana Chen, Amy Jung — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Role Call is a 6-part miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehash and co-hosted by Hats Protocol.

In our third episode of Role Call, we're joined once again by special guest host, Amy Jung (Eigen Foundation), to talk to Justine (Head of Governance at Optimism Foundation) about the concept of progressive decentralization and the challenges and considerations involved in transitioning responsibilities to a DAO.

We explore topics like infrastructure readiness, measuring success, and the balance between transparency and governance, and Justine shares some insights into Optimism's approach, frameworks, and the ongoing development of their governance processes.

We also briefly discuss the importance of clear mission alignment, data-driven decision-making, and the complexities of managing power dynamics within a decentralized framework.

⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
2:03 When is an organization ready to decentralize?
4:08 Challenges and risks in decentralization
5:56 Data-driven decision making
7:18 Frameworks and metrics for DAOs
15:24 Balancing transparency and control
19:30 Legitimacy and accountability in DAOs
27:58 Future of DAO governance
47:28 Follow Justine and co-hosts

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MINIHASH 007 | AltVMs and Intent-Based Bridges w/Jim Chang (CrossCats)

Jim Chang, Diana Chen — Mon, 9 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This Minihash episode was recorded in person in Bangkok, Thailand during Devcon 7.

In this episode, Jim Chang, co-founder of Catalyst and CrossCats, joins us to talk about the journey of building Catalyst, a platform initially aimed at Cosmos chains, pivoted to focusing on Ethereum rollups, and is now focused on altVMs.

Jim shares insights into their new product, CrossCats, an intent-based bridge facilitating easier and faster transactions across different virtual machines. We dive into the challenges of cross-chain bridging, market predictions, and strategic decisions behind adopting AltVMs over traditional EVM chains. Jim does a great job of explaining the complexities of blockchain interoperability and the potential future landscape of decentralized networks.

Jim previously appeared on Rehash in S4 E9: Millions of Modular Blockchains w/Jimmy Chang, which aired on April 13, 2023, and again in Minihash 003 | EthCC 2024 Recap: Key Insights, Trends, and Conference Highlights w/Jimmy Chang.

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0:00 Intro
1:39 History of Catalyst and CrossCats
3:59 Pivoting strategies in crypto
6:14 User research and feedback
8:36 How CrossCats works
11:37 Challenges of bridging across chains
15:55 Future of EVM and AltVMs
19:07 Follow Jim and CrossCats

S10 E7 | The Future of Internet Communities w/JB Rubinovitz (Tenfold)

JB Rubinovitz, Diana Chen — Thu, 5 Dec 2024 14:30:13 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with JB Rubinovitz, founder of Tenfold, about their perspective on decentralized social platforms, particularly Warpcast, and the future of decentralized identity and reputation.

We discuss the developer-centric focus of Warpcast, the challenges of onboarding users to decentralized platforms, and JB's journey in building Tenfold to empower builder communities.

We also get into the complexities of AI governance, ethical considerations, and the potential for decentralized training and data labeling in AI. JB wraps up with some insights on their fundraising experience and the vision for Tenfold's future.

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0:00 Intro

4:03 Challenges and criticisms of decentralized social

6:54 User experience on Warpcast

11:43 Future of decentralized social and identity

21:07 AI governance and ethical considerations

30:24 What is Tenfold?

37:20 Fundraising challenges

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Role Call Ep 2: The End of the Airdrop Era w/Rafa (ZK Sync)

Rafa, Spencer Graham, Diana Chen, Amy Jung — Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Role Call is a 6-part miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehash and co-hosted by Hats Protocol.

In our second episode of Role Call, we're joined by special guest host, Amy Jung (Eigen Foundation), to talk to Rafa (Governance Lead at ZK Sync Association) about the future of DAO governance and the implications of the end of the era of airdrops.

We talk about the challenges in designing sustainable governance models, differentiating between geographic and interest-based communities, and the concept of soft versus hard accountability in DAOs. Rafa also delves into governance at ZK Sync, the importance of modularity and composability, and the evolving mechanisms of distributing control in the crypto space.

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00:00 Intro
03:29 Community building and governance
12:54 Governance structures in ZK Sync
19:15 Challenges in DAO implementation
22:19 Future-proofing governance systems
32:54 The importance of feedback and accountability
33:34 Hard vs. soft accountability
37:39 The role of reputation and anonymity
45:09 Challenges in enforcing accountability
53:13 Exploring new forms of accountability
59:04 Final thoughts and where to follow everyone

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S10 E6 | Funding Olympic Dreams Through Onchain Content w/Naomi Metzger (Afrochicks)

Naomi Metzger, Diana Chen — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Naomi Metzger, an 11-time British triple jump champion, about her use of Web3 to fund her journey to the 2028 Olympics.

Naomi shares her story of overcoming injuries that kept her from competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics and how she became the first athlete to document her recovery journey onchain.

She also shares about her passion for NFTs, specifically her project Afrochicks, her active involvement on Warpcast, and her insights on the future of decentralized social media and NFTs, offering inspiration and advice for athletes and creators alike.

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0:00 Intro
1:23 Naomi’s athletic journey and overcoming injury
9:11 How Naomi discovered web3 and NFTs
13:53 Afrochicks NFT project
16:21 Future plans and fitness content
17:54 Naomi’s thoughts on Warpcast
24:48 Future of decentralized social
33:45 Future of NFTs x AI
40:56 Follow Naomi

Role Call Ep 1: Saving Civilization Through New Governance Models w/Tracheopteryx (Eigen Foundation)

Diana Chen — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:55:29 +0000

Role Call is a 6-part miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehash and co-hosted by Hats Protocol.

In our first episode of Role Call, we dive deep into the evolving nature of money, relationships, and reputation with Tracheopteryx, Chief Governance Officer at Eigen Foundation.

Rehash host, Diana Chen, is joined by Nick Naraghi and Spencer Graham, co-founders at Hats Protocol, to explore the intricacies of decentralized governance, the transformative power of reputation systems, and the challenges of creating a more accountable and equitable society through blockchain technology.

The conversation also touches on the philosophical and practical implications of these changes for organizations and civilization at large.

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0:00 Introduction
2:15 Why humans struggle to coordinate
6:30 The flaws in token voting systems
12:45 How decentralized reputation systems will work
19:10 The death of money and rise of relationships
25:40 Small councils vs. traditional democracies
32:00 How new governance can save civilization

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S10 E5 | Understanding Crypto Protocol Security w/Laurence Day (Wildcat Finance)

Diana Chen — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:56:19 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, Dr. Laurence E. Day, founder of Wildcat Finance and creator of the infamous West Ham group chat, joins us to clear up rumors about his alleged crypto hacks and share more about what he’s working on at Wildcat Finance, which aims to facilitate under-collateralized borrowing on the Ethereum blockchain.

Laurence also shares his thoughts on protocol security, the impact of social engineering attacks, and the future of credit in DeFi.

Last but certainly not least, we chat about the role and unique culture of the West Ham group chat in the crypto community.

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0:00 Intro

1:05 Laurence’s background

10:04 The infamous crypto protocol hacks

16:13 Protocol security insights

25:17 Challenges of onboarding the masses to DeFi

26:54 The UX and PMF debate

29:30 What is Wildcat Finance?

37:52 The importance of credit in DeFi

41:24 What is West Ham?

51:20 Final thoughts and predictions

TRAILER: Introducing "Role Call" by Hats Protocol

Spencer Graham, Nick Naraghi, David Erlichmann, Diana Chen — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:02:40 +0000

Rehash is launching a new 6 part miniseries on DAO governance and design in conjunction with Hats Protocol called Role Call!

Tune in every week for a deep dive on DAOs with Rehash host, Diana Chen, Hats co-founders, Spencer Graham, Nick Naraghi, and David Erlichmann, and our special guests joining us each week.

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S10 E4 | SEC Insights on Crypto w/Hester Peirce

Diana Chen — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:15:34 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joins us to talk about legal compliance and innovation in the crypto space.

Known for her pro-innovation stance, Commissioner Peirce discusses her critiques of the SEC's stringent regulatory approach toward crypto and her hopes for clearer guidelines.

The conversation covers the balance between fostering innovation and protecting investors, the need for regulatory clarity, and the impact of current regulations on U.S. crypto innovation.

Commissioner Peirce also addresses the importance of public involvement in rulemaking and the potential for a new regulatory framework.

Note: This episode was recorded on October 29, 2024.

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0:00 Intro

1:55 SEC’s approach to crypto regulation

3:49 Challenges and criticisms of current regulations

6:27 Impact of regulations on innovation

11:27 Community questions and concerns

16:21 Future of crypto regulation

33:25 Closing thoughts and how to contact Hester Peirce

S10 E3 | Innovative Organizational Structures w/Dr. Nick (FactoryDAO)

Dr. Nick Almond, Diana Chen — Thu, 7 Nov 2024 23:41:28 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Dr. Nick Almond, a physicist turned DAO enthusiast and now CEO of Factory Labs, about cybernetic governance frameworks in DAOs, the current state and challenges of DAOs, and the potential of decentralized AI in governance.

We also talk about issues of privacy and surveillance, Dr. Nick shares his critical views on WorldCoin (now World), and we wrap up with some of Dr. Nick’s personal insights on the future of decentralization.

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0:00 Intro

01:48 Dr. Nick's journey from physics to crypto

03:17 The experimental nature of crypto and DAOs

05:42 Current state of DAOs

13:30 What is FactoryDAO?

19:38 Cybernetic governance frameworks

28:33 Crypto economic mechanisms for AI

29:24 Challenges of decentralization

30:59 Innovative governance models

38:30 Privacy and surveillance concerns

44:40 Nick’s hot takes about WorldCoin

52:10 Lighthearted questions and wrap-up

S10 E2 | The U.S. Election and State of Crypto Policy w/Amanda Tuminelli (DeFi Education Fund)

Amanda Tuminelli, Diana Chen — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:46:42 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Amanda Tuminelli, Chief Legal Officer at DeFi Education Fund, about the latest in crypto policy and what she’s expecting to see leading up to the election next week.

We start out by recapping some of the lawsuits Amanda has helped file against the SEC through DeFi Education Fund and her testimony at the first congressional hearing on DeFi last month, and then we talk about what’s on her radar right now in terms of what the SEC is doing and how she expects the election to impact the state of crypto moving forward.

Amanda was nominated by Andy Boyan and voted onto the podcast by Nicole D’Avis, Andy Boyan, Defi Beats, Disruption Joe, Meg Lister, and Irina Marinescu.

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S10 E1 | Discovery of New Things on Blockchain w/Bunny (Dora)

Bunny, Diana Chen — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:48:23 +0000

In our first episode of Season 10, we’re speaking with Bunny, CEO of Dora, an onchain discovery engine that’s making it easier than ever for people to discover new apps and projects across a multitude of chains.

We talk about why onchain data is important and more specifically why human readable onchain data is important. Bunny explains why he believes read only block explorers will die over the long run and we’ll end up with dev-focused, analytics-focused, and consumer-focused experiences for onchain data.

Bunny also shares his thoughts on what the endstate of consumer crypto is and how well we’re progressing toward that goal.

Bunny was nominated by myself, Diana Chen, and voted onto the podcast by Katy Atherholt, Jimmy Chang, Nich, David Phelps, Triumph, Irina Marinescu, and Defi Beats.

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0:00 Intro

1:48 What is Dora?

3:50 Primary reason to use Dora

9:24 Endstate of human readable onchain data

13:39 Future of block explorers

17:04 Onchain discovery of goods and services

28:15 Long term vision for Dora

42:40 One word to describe 2025

43:20 Follow Bunny and Dora

MINIHASH 006 | Taking the World Offline w/Satvik Sethi (Offline Protocol)

Satvik Sethi, Diana Chen — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:00:18 +0000

Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehash, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest.

On this Minihash episode, Satvik Sethi, founder of Offline Protocol, joins us for a deep dive on how he’s taking the world offline with Offline Protocol.

Satvik first appeared on Rehash in S3 E12 | Let's Talk About Mental Health in Web3 w/Satvik Sethi, which aired on December 1, 2022.

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0:00 Intro
0:44 Update since Satvik’s previous appearance on Rehash
2:22 What is Offline Protocol?
10:37 Real world use cases for Offline Protocol
22:43 Is Offline Protocol a crypto product?
27:31 Learn more about Offline Protocol

[BONUS] LIVE FROM DETROIT: Democratic Allocation of Capital Onchain w/Kevin Owocki (Gitcoin)

Kevin Owocki, Diana Chen — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

This episode was recorded live in Detroit on Saturday, September 28, 2024 during the Rehash podcast event at MCON III.

In this episode, Kevin Owocki from Gitcoin joined us to talk about democratic allocation of capital onchain.

Kevin is the co-founder of Gitcoin, host of the Green Pill Podcast, and author of the Onchain Capital Allocation Handbook.

This episode is sponsored by Last. Last is a new EVM chain that generates revenue from cashflow throughout the network and returns all profits to the community via sustainable and lasting incentives. Build to Last at https://last.net.

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0:00 Intro

1:58 How do we allocate capital fairly?

17:55 Is retrofunding a good funding mechanism?

MINIHASH 005 | What are Autonomous Worlds? w/Peter Pan (1kx)

Peter Pan, Diana Chen — Thu, 3 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehash, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest.

On this Minihash episode, Peter Pan, Partner at 1kx, joins us for a deep dive on what autonomous worlds are.

Peter first appeared on Rehash in S5 E5 | Onchain World Building w/Peter Pan, which aired on July 20, 2023.

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1:15 What are autonomous worlds?

6:12 Do blockchains uniquely enable autonomous worlds to exist?

15:07 Democratizing participation and generating immersion

29:50 Advice for builders

30:39 Follow Peter

S9 E9 | Infra vs Apps, Shared Sequencers, and Dungeon Masters w/Jill Gunter (Espresso)

Jill Gunter, Diana Chen — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In our final episode of Season 9, we’re speaking with Jill Gunter, Chief Strategy Officer at Espresso Systems, the coordination layer that unites chains, rollups, and applications.

We start off with a hot topic nowadays which is whether we should be focusing more on building infrastructure or apps. You might assume you know where Jill stands on this topic as someone who’s working on a middleware solution, but there’s actually a lot more to the story from her perspective.

Jill has lots of excellent analogies to help us better understand technical concepts like shared sequencers and rollups, and she debunks some common misconceptions people have about Espresso ahead of their mainnet launch this quarter.

This is an excellent episode for the nontechnical person to listen to to better understand how various components of blockchains work, as well as for the more technical person to have some of their uncertainties about shared sequencers and the work Espresso is doing around that cleared up.

Jill was nominated for Rehash by Meg Lister and voted onto the podcast by Richie Bonilla, Irina Marinescu, Meg Lister, and Diana Chen.

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0:00 Intro

3:47 Infra vs apps

14:40 What is Espresso and what are shared sequencers? ELI5

35:13 Future of Layer 2 blockchains

39:01 Ethereum vs Solana

48:47 Future of zk rollups

50:07 Being a new mom in crypto

56:31 Can You Not

58:44 Follow Jill

S9 E8 | Event Design Playbook & Crypto in the Global South w/Gloria Kimbwala (Sei Foundation)

Gloria Kimbwala, Diana Chen — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Gloria Kimbwala, Head of Events at Sei Foundation, about crypto events and crypto in the global south.

Gloria has been working in the crypto space since 2017, primarily within builder communities and more recently as the events lead at Sei Foundation. She has attended and organized countless events, both in crypto and outside of crypto, and she shares her knowledge and expertise with us on how to design a successful event, and from the attendee side, how to decide which events to go to when it feels like there’s literally a crypto event every single week.

We spend the second half of this convo talking about crypto in the global south - what types of apps and use cases are being built out there and more importantly how to get funding into the hands of founders based in Africa and LATAM.

Gloria was nominated by Rachael Amy and voted onto the podcast by Gary Sheng, Hudson Jameson, Queen Wartooth, Rachael Amy, Irina Marinescu, and Diana Chen.

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3:45 What is Sei Foundation?

5:26 How to develop an events strategy

9:31 How to decide which events are worth attending

14:48 Are side events bad?

19:52 Event planning playbook

22:40 How to measure ROI for events

31:45 Web3 in the global south

49:08 What needs the most involvement from crypto culture?

56:12 Follow Gloria

S9 E7 | Crypto's Three Body Problem w/Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, and Sam Hart (Other Internet)

Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, Sam Hart, Diana Chen — Thu, 5 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, and Sam Hart from Other Internet about their most recent article on crypto’s three body problem, clarifying some common misconceptions about headless brands, and getting their take on the current state of onchain culture.

The idea for this collaboration or interview came about when we had Jon Wu on the podcast last season in S8 E4 which aired on May 9, 2024. In that episode, Jon criticized the concept of a “headless brand” that was coined by the Other Internet team back in 2019, and Toby Shorin responded that Jon’s interpretation of “headless brands” was not what the authors had intended when they wrote the article. It turns out that many people have similar interpretations of “headless brands” that Jon had, so it was helpful and productive to give the Other Internet team a chance to clarify what they meant.

We then discuss their latest article on crypto’s three body problem and give the team a chance to speak about it for the first time since publishing the article, and finally I asked Sam about a spicy post he wrote recently that called out a lot of the current onchain culture for being “completely soulless” and a “cultural wasteland.”

Toby, Laura, and Sam were nominated for Rehash by Diana Chen and voted onto the podcast by Richie Bonilla, Triumph, fifthworldzach, Tim Black, Birb, Amy Jung, Rachael Amy, and Anay Sim.

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0:00 Intro

3:26 Clarifying “headless brands”

9:42 Crypto’s Three Body Problem

37:14 Current onchain culture is a complete “cultural wasteland”

40:24 Why we shouldn’t talk about onboarding the masses to crypto

42:49 Upcoming new book from Other Internet

45:07 Follow Toby, Laura, and Sam

S9 E6 | Pixel Pushing Our Way to Better UX w/0xdesigner

0xdesigner, Diana Chen — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with 0xdesigner about all things design, anonymity, and UX/UI in web3.

This is the longest episode in Rehash history, but we had so much to talk about and 0xdesigner graciously gave us almost two hours of his time to share his thoughts on all things consumer crypto, UX improvements, and the design space.

0xdesigner is primarily a product designer who has been putting out a new UX/UI design each day for the past 1.5 years, usually some sort of UX or design improvement to an existing app or envisioning a new app.

Not only does he have so many clever and creative ideas he shares every day, but he also has so much optimism and enthusiasm for crypto throughout all the highs and lows over the past few years. He truly believes in a future that’s enhanced by crypto and blockchain and is focused every day on working toward that goal.

0xdesigner was nominated by Ernest Kou and voted onto the podcast by Brenner Spear, Tom Scaria, Magenta Ceiba, Ernest Kou, Nick Naraghi, Lucas, Birb, Amy Jung, fifthworldzach, Maz, and David Phelps.

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0:00 Intro

2:25 0xdesigner’s background

4:00 Anonymity in crypto

17:26 Creating a new design every day for 570+ days

26:58 When it doesn’t make sense to use crypto

31:30 Cool new use cases for crypto

36:54 0xdesigner’s upcoming design projects

43:14 What 0xdesigner wishes people knew about design

45:42 Why is crypto UX and design so bad?

53:45 Why 0xdesigner is always open to testing new apps

57:24 Will web3 create new design primitives?

1:01:52 Do we need financialization in consumer crypto apps?

1:14:34 Every app will be a social app

1:28:25 Questions from Twitter

1:32:59 Can You Not

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S9 E5 | Is Public Goods Funding Sustainable? w/Sophia Dew (Celo)

Sophia Dew, Diana Chen — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Sophia Dew, DevRel Engineering Lead at Celo, about all things onchain funding and what goes into launching a layer 2 blockchain.

Sophia joined Celo about a month ago, and prior to that she was working on Public Goods Network, or PGN, a layer 2 blockchain focused on public goods. PGN ended up running out of money and winding down but Sophia learned tons of lessons along the way about maintaining a blockchain that she shares with us in this episode.

We then did a deep dive into onchain funding - what new things it enables, why it’s important, and Sophia gives lots of examples of use cases or apps she would love to see get built out in the onchain funding arena.

Sophia was nominated by Nicole (by way of Triumph) and voted onto the podcast by Richie Bonilla, Andy Boyan, Meg Lister, David Phelps, Rachael Amy, and Triumph.

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0:00 Intro

2:47 How to launch a layer 2 blockchain via Public Goods Network (PGN)

6:41 How to maintain and grow a blockchain

14:21 Does it make sense to build an L2 focused on public goods?

16:07 Playbook for launching an L2

17:56 What does blockchain enable for public goods funding?

20:56 Framework for designing onchain funding mechanisms

27:07 Examples of onchain public goods funding outside of crypto

31:54 How to design regenerative funding mechanisms

42:28 What is Celo?

48:29 Can You Not

50:50 Follow Sophia

S9 E4 | What is Data Availability? w/Rene Lubov (Celestia)

Rene Lubov, Diana Chen — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Rene Lubov, software engineer at Celestia, about data availability (DA), or what Rene prefers to call data publishing.

Rene is one of the founding engineers at Celestia and breaks down for us everything we need to know about DA and how it’s implemented at Celestia. We also talk about modularity in blockchains, light nodes, and other technical concepts that you may have heard of before but maybe don’t have a clear understanding of just yet. She does a great job of explaining all of these concepts clearly.

On a more personal level, Rene also shares about her background, how she taught herself to code, what protocol engineering is (hint: it’s very different from app development or smart contract coding), what it was like being a founding engineer at Celestia, and her experience as a woman in crypto having joined way back in the early days.

Rene was nominated for Rehash by Tina and voted onto the podcast by Tina, Jimmy Chang, Hudson Jameson, Queen Wartooth, and David Phelps.

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0:00 Intro

2:20 What is data availability (DA)?

5:15 Why is data availability getting so much attention lately?

9:12 How does data availability increase scalability and reduce costs?

11:30 Is DA implemented in the blockchain layer or app layer?

14:08 What is Celestia?

16:20 What is modularity in blockchains?

19:18 Is Celestia an L1 or L2?

21:49 Future of Celestia

22:08 What is a light node?

28:25 What is it like being a founding engineer?

32:09 How is protocol engineering different from smart contract engineering?

35:45 Berlin ETH culture

39:26 How Rene became a coder

43:36 Twitter questions

51:45 Can You Not

55:52 Follow Rene

S9 E3 | Fractional Work, AI Learning Models, and Bitcoin Developer Ecosystem w/Bethany Crystal

Bethany Crystal, Diana Chen — Thu, 8 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Bethany Crystal about all things fractional work, using AI to improve learning and workflows, and we wrap up with a quick discussion on the Bitcoin developer ecosystem.

Bethany is the web3 fractional work queen, and she shares very openly in this episode about her experience as a fractional worker in web3, what her process looks like, and practical tips for others to think outside of the box about how they want to work.

As a mother of two and hobbyist of many things, Bethany has had to think creatively about how she can find the best balance for herself to do all the things she wants to do in life. For her, the answer was fractional work, or working on various projects on a contract or part time basis so that she has time for other aspects of life she enjoys and so that she can have her curiosity constantly satisfied with a variety of projects.

She talks about some of the pros and cons to being a fractional worker, the types of people she believes are best suited for the job, and gives us practical tips for identifying our core skillsets and finding work. She also shares some of the ways she’s been using AI to aid in her workflow and help her learn new skills at a much faster rate as well.

Bethany was nominated by DeFi Beats and voted onto the podcast by DeFi Beats, Parker Jay-Pachirat, Birb, Triumph, fifthworldzach, David Phelps, Spencer Graham, Andy Boyan, and Nick Naraghi.

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0:00 Intro

3:32 What is fractional work?

5:09 Bethany’s background in fractional work

11:35 Pros and cons to fractional work

15:44 Tips for promoting yourself as a fractional worker

23:15 How to balance life with work

26:25 Strategies for finding clients and work

32:46 Education x AI

36:54 Developing your learning stack

44:43 Incorporating AI into your learning stack

48:36 Building on Bitcoin L2

53:08 Can You Not

53:40 Follow Bethany

MINIHASH 004 | Improving UX With Account Abstraction w/Nichanan Kesonpat (1kx)

Nichanan Kesonpat, Diana Chen — Fri, 2 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehash, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest.

On this Minihash episode, Nichanan Kesonpat, Researcher at 1kx, is joining us for a deep dive on what account abstraction is and recent developments in AA that have led to significant improvements in UX with crypto apps.

Nich first appeared on Rehash in S2 E5 | Parody Sorority Turned Grants DAO w/Kseniya & Nich from MGD, which aired on June 9, 2022.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:13 What is account abstraction (AA)?

9:53 Modular smart account abstraction

12:04 Real world use cases for account abstraction

16:14 Long term impacts of account abstraction

20:50 How account abstraction affects security

22:41 Favorite dapps using account abstraction

S9 E2 | A New Era of Media Without Algorithms or Ads w/Grace Guan (Unlonely)

Grace Guan, Diana Chen — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we’re speaking with Grace Guan, co-founder of Unlonely, a web3 livestreaming platform, about web2 vs web3 media, inner workings of YouTube algorithms, and how traditional media platforms can stop exploiting creators by getting rid of ads and algorithms in this new iteration of media we’re building in web3.

Grace and her brother, Brian, co-founded Unlonely together and have been doing a phenomenal job of onboarding creators to the platform. Grace shares some stats on their user base and viewership in this episode as well as what she thinks people working on consumer crypto apps need to do differently in order to get more users onto their platforms.

If you’re a creator or anyone working adjacent to web3 media, you won’t want to miss this episode with Grace.

Grace was nominated by Winny and voted onto the podcast by Winny, Triumph, Maz, Andy Boyan, Birb, David Phelps, Lucas, Ernest Kou, and myself, Diana Chen.

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0:00 Intro

3:42 Unlonely origin story

8:57 What it’s like co-founding a company with a sibling

12:20 Grace’s least favorite thing about working with Brian

17:57 Web2 vs web3 media

34:25 Good and bad parts of traditional media

36:11 What’s a better solution than algorithms and ads?

38:53 How to get more users onto crypto consumer apps

41:18 Unlonely viewer and watchtime stats

43:03 How to onboard traditional creators to web3 media

49:15 Concierge health services

58:22 Can You Not

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MINIHASH 003 | EthCC 2024 Recap: Key Insights, Trends, and Conference Highlights w/Jimmy Chang (Catalyst)

Jimmy Chang, Diana Chen — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehash, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest.

On this Minihash episode, Jimmy Chang, founder of Catalyst, is joining us to recap EthCC 2024 in Brussels for us, sharing key insights in the Ethereum ecosystem, trends he’s noticing, and other conference highlights and lowlights.

Jimmy first appeared on Rehash in S4 E9: Millions of Modular Blockchains w/Jimmy Chang, which aired on April 13, 2023.

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S4 E9: Millions of Modular Blockchains w/Jimmy Chang (April 13, 2023)

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:10 Overall vibes at EthCC 2024 in Brussels

2:47 Main takeaways from EthCC (2 negative, 1 positive)

15:44 Key categories to focus on in Ethereum ecosystem in 2024

22:05 Favorite side events at EthCC 2024

23:52 Predictions for EthCC 2025

25:56 Final thoughts on EthCC 2025

S9 E1 | The Future of Digital Art, Galleries, and Community Building for Artists w/P1A

P1AbyPia, Diana Chen — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

To kick off Season 9, we are speaking with P1A, a contemporary artist, educator, and founder based in Istanbul, about all things web3 and art. We reflect on the NFT craze of 2021, and P1A shares why even though the hype has died down, NFTs are in fact not dead and on the contrary, art NFTs have a long way to grow and develop.

We also talk about the work she’s doing at her studio in Istanbul called Yazane, where she’s helping educate other local artists about web3 and the impact that blockchain can have on their careers as artists. She not only uses the space as a gathering place and educational center but also as a gallery for local artists to be able to exhibit their works without paying the exorbitant fees they would to traditional galleries.

P1A was nominated by David Phelps and voted onto the podcast by David Phelps, Richie Bonilla, Forage, and Triumph.

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0:00 Intro

2:22 P1A’s background

6:02 When NFTs started to make sense for P1A

7:47 What fueled all the hype around NFTs in 2021?

10:22 Are NFTs dead in 2024

14:57 Path to success for a traditional artist

18:33 How web3 benefits artists

20:29 Will art galleries become obsolete?

23:20 How web3 affects traditional galleries

28:47 How Yazane Studio in Istanbul is structured

34:10 P1A’s dream tool in web3

38:30 What P1A’s working on currently

41:18 Can You Not

43:34 Follow P1A

DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.

MINIHASH 002 | Oasis Onchain & Crypto in the Global South w/Stefen Deleveaux

Diana Chen, Stefen Deleveaux — Thu, 4 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehash, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest.

On this Minihash episode, we’re speaking with Stefen Deleveaux about Oasis Onchain, a 3-day consumer crypto conference in Nassau, Bahamas, that he started last year and how to push crypto forward in the global south.

Stefen first appeared on Rehash in S2 E11: DAO Governance, Tooling, and Culture w/Stefen Deleveaux, which aired on June 30, 2022, and subsequently in S6 BONUS: 2023 Wrap Up & 2024 Predictions w/Hudson Jameson, Sirsu, Maya Bakhai, and Stefen Deleveaux.

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S2 E11: DAO Governance, Tooling, and Culture w/Stefen Deleveaux (June 30, 2022)
S6 BONUS: 2023 Wrap Up & 2024 Predictions w/Hudson Jameson, Sirsu, Maya Bakhai, and Stefen Deleveaux (December 28, 2023)

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0:00 Intro

1:42 What is Oasis Onchain?

8:03 Why consumer crypto?

12:04 How can consumer crypto can succeed in the Caribbean and broader Global South?

14:03 What types of consumer crypto apps most beneficial to Caribbeans?

17:42 Oasis Onchain’s new ecosystem fund

21:52 How to support Oasis Onchain

MINIHASH 001 | The Tally Protocol w/Dennison Bertram

Dennison Bertram, Diana Chen — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehash, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest.

On our first Minihash episode, we’re speaking with Dennison Bertram about the newly launched Tally Protocol.

The Tally Protocol unlocks the economic potential of governance tokens by providing a liquidity layer for governance staking and restaking, while optimizing the distribution of voting power to drive economic security back to blockchain protocols.

Dennison first appeared on Rehash in S3 E1: Best Practices for Operating a DAO w/Dennison Bertram, which aired on September 8, 2022.

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0:00 Intro

2:09 What is Tally?

2:56 What is The Tally Protocol?

15:32 How opinionated is The Tally Protocol?

18:20 Interesting examples of how organizations can use The Tally Protocol

23:47 Final thoughts on The Tally Protocol

25:25 Learn more about Tally

S8 E10 | Organizational Design and Governance Frameworks w/Amy Jung (Safe)

Amy Jung, Diana Chen — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Amy Jung, Governance Lead at Safe and an OG in the Ethereum and specifically DAO space, about all things organization design, governance, and her hottest takes about DAOs.

Amy joined the Safe team back in March of this year and also has her own DAO operations and strategy consultancy called Shared Realities, where she helps organizations and teams with their progressive decentralization strategy and execution, organizational design, and community development. Previously, she worked at MakerDAO for two years as their Head of Community Development and ConsenSys as their Design Operations Lead.

In this episode, Amy reveals many of her strategies and frameworks she uses to help organizations decentralize, starting with questions any organization should ask themselves to decide first and foremost whether it even makes sense for them to decentralize.

Amy presents information in really clearly thought out frameworks that anyone can take back to their organization and implement, and her dedication to the space and deep expertise in DAO organization design is unmatched.

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LINKS

S8 E1 | Multiparty Ops Onchain w/Jonah Erlich (Den): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErdxzFt1rEo
“Working in Public” by Nadia Eghbal: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862
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“Owning is the New Sharing” by Nathan Schneider: https://nathanschneider.info/2014/12/owning-is-the-new-sharing/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:53 Amy’s background in DAOs

5:26 Frameworks for decentralized organizational design

13:20 How do DAOs scale?

17:37 How to balance growth with quality

20:08 How to make tradeoffs between decentralized and centralized components of DAOs

27:48 Decentralization process for Safe

38:28 Compensation in DAOs

44:22 Best and worst examples of governance in DAOs

48:05 Amy’s hot take on the one thing all DAOs are doing wrong

49:32 Can You Not

52:11 Follow Amy

S8 E9 | People Before Protocols w/Irina Marinescu (buidlbox)

Irina Marinescu, Diana Chen — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On our penultimate episode of the season, we’re speaking with Irina Marinescu, co-founder and CEO of buidlbox, a global hub for builders to learn, earn, and connect in web3.

Irina is also a mentor at Tachyon and a founder of Women in Crypto, and she previously worked as General Counsel at Gitcoin throughout its disaffiliation process to decentralize Gitcoin Holdings (which later became Supermodular) from GitcoinDAO back in Spring 2022.

It was during this transition period that Gitcoin’s bounties and hackathons product, which was originally launched in 2017 by Kevin Owocki, began morphing into what is now buidlbox, and in February 2023 at ETH Denver, buidlbox officially launched. Around that time, Supermodular (previously Gitcoin Holdings) decided to shift its entire focus to supporting the thriving buidlbox platform.

In this episode, Irina shares updates on where buidlbox stands today and how it is shaping the future of learning and work, what she learned from the Gitcoin disaffiliation process, both from a legal and an organizational perspective, and how non-technical people can get involved in hackathons and building in the space.

We then get into the recent SAB 121 bill that President Biden recently vetoed, why Irina believes the SEC hasn’t exactly been aligned with the crypto ecosystem, and the one thing we need to do more of to help regulators change their minds about crypto.

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buidlbox: https://twitter.com/buidlbox

🔗 LINKS

Story of buidlbox: https://blog.buidlbox.io/about-buidlbox-our-story-9f7578c50828
Permissionless: https://app.buidlbox.io/blockworks/permissionless-iii/signup (free ticket)
DM Rachael to host no code hackathon: https://twitter.com/rachaelplz
Codeless Hackathon: https://www.covalenthq.com/blog/codeless-conduct-winners-2022/

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0:00 Intro

3:05 How has buidlbox evolved over time?

5:50 How does buidlbox help people learn, earn and connect in web3?

9:15 How can non-technical people help build in crypto?

12:35 What are no-code hackathons?

14:22 What does the future of work and learning look like?

24:01 Irina’s biggest learnings from Gitcoin disaffiliation process

28:00 Biggest legal considerations for decentralized organizations

30:50 Irina’s insights on how the SEC thinks (as a former legal intern)

34:03 Irina’s reactions to President Biden’s veto of SAB 121

41:50 How becoming a mom has changed Irina’s north star in crypto

47:03 Can You Not

49:19 Follow Irina and buidlbox

S8 E8 | Onchain Subscription Models & Rehash on Hypersub w/Jonny Mack (Hypersub/Fabric)

Jonny Mack, Diana Chen — Thu, 6 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Jonny Mack, co-founder and CEO of Hypersub and Fabric, about all things subscriptions.

First, an announcement: Rehash just launched a monthly subscription on Hypersub! This monthly subscription will deliver Rehash podcast NFTs straight to your wallet onchain. You can find the link to subscribe below.

In this episode we talk all things subscriptions and Hypersub - what features web3 enables for creator subscriptions that was never before possible in web2, how creators can best engage their audience to encourage resubscribes anď reduce churn, and some of the best examples of how creators have been using Hypersub to date.

If you’re a creator of any kind (artist, musician, podcaster, video creator, freelancer, or even developer), you’ll find some inspiration from this conversation.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our Hypersub and check out our onboarding doc for new members (links below)!

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Hypersub: https://twitter.com/hypersubxyz

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Rehash Hypersub: https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/collection/rehash-podcast-club-s9c8bb45vg1s
Rehash Podcast Club Onboarding Doc: https://paragraph.xyz/@rehash/rehash-podcast-club

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:41 ANNOUNCEMENT: Rehash on Hypersub!

5:26 What is Hypersub?

9:50 Web2 subscriptions vs web3 subscriptions

17:00 Can web3 businesses make more money than web2 businesses?

20:43 Why people pay for subscriptions

25:40 Revenue splits for Rehash Podcast Club

26:40 Subscribing vs re-subscribing

31:39 Does value deteriorate over time?

39:24 How can content creators provide outsized value?

36:05 Twitter questions

42:05 Can You Not

44:00 Follow Jonny

S8 E7 | Airdrop Design and Dragon Academy Revealed for the First Time w/Queen Wartooth

Queen Wartooth, Diana Chen — Thu, 30 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Queen Wartooth about designing airdrops, strategies for acquiring new users in crypto, and she reveals for the first time the project she’s been working on in stealth, Dragon Academy, which will launch next month.

Queen Wartooth has done a lot of work around designing airdrops and thinking about how best to incentivize users, and we spend the first half or so of the conversation talking about airdrop design, anti-Sybil strategies, and problems around user acquisition in general.

Then, for the second half of the conversation, Wartooth opens up about Dragon Academy, which aims to fundamentally change how airdrops are architected and executed to the benefit of both long term aligned products and new users.

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Dragon Academy: https://twitter.com/StudyDragonsNFT

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:16 Stated purpose of airdrops vs actual impact of airdrops

6:36 Are airdrops better for user acquisition or retention?

8:04 Best ways to incentivize users long term

10:17 How to create a community in crypto that feels safe

13:42 Is it better to build infrastructure or consumer apps first?

15:22 How to prevent Sybil attacks

17:12 Strategies for restructuring airdrops to be more effective

20:53 What is Dragon Academy? [EXCLUSIVE]

24:29 How does proof of humanity play into Dragon Academy?

45:06 Can You Not

48:20 Follow Queen Wartooth

S8 E6 | Can Agentic Tech Take Down Surveillance Capitalism? w/Zoe Weinberg (ex/ante)

Zoe Weinberg, Diana Chen — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Zoe Weinberg, Founder and Managing Partner at ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech.

We start our conversation by getting a little insight into Zoe’s background, which is quite unique and unusual but also lends itself quite well to the work she’s doing today in privacy and human agency.

She shares the ways in which her past humanitarian work in conflict zones and developing nations opened her eyes to issues around surveillance capitalism and how she had her first big realization of how crypto can change individuals’ lives in meaningful ways when she met a group of Bitcoin miners in Iraq during the Mosul conflict when Iraq successfully took back the city of Mosul from the Islamic State.

We then dive into some big topics around agentic tech, including user control, consent, privacy, and online (and onchain) data sharing. Zoe envisions a world where humans have full agency over how their information and data are used and we talk about what it might take for us to get there.

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Zoe: https://twitter.com/zweinberg

LINKS

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697
Privacy Party (prev: Block Party): https://www.blockpartyapp.com/#privacyparty/
ex/ante Substack: https://buildexante.substack.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:35 Zoe’s background

5:52 When crypto saves lives

10:24 How surveillance capitalism has developed over time

15:31 State vs corporate surveillance capitalism

18:02 Will online privacy regulations improve over time?

23:07 What is agentic tech?

29:14 What impact can agentic tech have in our lives?

34:40 How do user control and consent fit into a public blockchain?

36:46 Examples of agentic tech solutions

45:14 Ideal end state if agentic tech succeeds

48:00 Can You Not

49:40 Follow Zoe and ex/ante

S8 E5 | Onchain Data and Smart Contract Design in a Post-Token Paradigm w/Sean McCaffery (JokeRace)

Sean McCaffery, Diana Chen — Thu, 16 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Sean McCaffery, co-founder of JokeRace, about new developments in smart contract design, how onchain data can drive consumer adoption of crypto, and new and novel use cases for tokens.

We’ve had Sean’s co-founder, David Phelps, on the podcast a couple of times, back in S6 E10 where he talked about crypto use cases for mass adoption and even earlier on in S3 E2 which aired in August 2022 when he talked about non-financial use cases for tokens.

JokeRace is a contests platform for communities to run, grow, and monetize. In our specific case, Rehash holders are able to submit proposals on JokeRace, nominating their favorite people to be guests on the podcast, and our guest lineup for the following season of Rehash is determined through a voting process every quarter.

For a full primer and history on how JokeRace started and developed, check out David Phelps’ episodes from S3 E2 and S6 E10 so you have full context on the project and are able to appreciate some of the alpha Sean drops about upcoming feature launches.

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Sean: https://twitter.com/seanmc_eth

JokeRace: https://twitter.com/jokerace_io

LINKS

Containerized contracts thesis: https://github.com/seanmc9/containerized-contracts-thesis?tab=readme-ov-file
Sean’s Github: https://github.com/seanmc9
Rehash S3 E2 | Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps: https://youtu.be/v-huDdPaG1c?si=E1InDEp_hJllgWaS
Rehash S6 E10 | Crypto Use Cases for Mass Adoption w/David Phelps: https://youtu.be/_04bodYKG-k?si=d2xlIpFfRLflAwOP

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:27 Containerized contracts thesis

15:42 Onchain data and consumer adoption

19:00 Obstacles to creating superapps

20:55 Benefits of onchain, open source data

29:26 Ideal onchain data dashboard for Rehash

33:13 What does post-token mean?

35:50 How can people use tokens in a post-token paradigm?

38:05 How to prevent whales and sybil

41:14 Can crypto really create wealth redistribution?

44:04 New JokeRace features

48:44 Can you not

50:18 Follow Sean

S8 E4 | Marketing, Storytelling, and Investing Hot Takes w/Jon Wu

Jon Wu, Diana Chen — Thu, 9 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Jon Wu about marketing and investing in crypto.

Last season you heard from Jon’s other half, Maggie Love, from SheFi in S7 E9 about onboarding women into crypto, and now we have the opportunity to speak with the other half of this dynamic duo and power couple, Jon.

Jon recently became an early stage investor after a decade of building in crypto and in tech more broadly, and in our conversation today he shares lots of great insights on what he believes to be the most effective marketing strategies in crypto, how he comes up with his unpopular beliefs and hot takes, and where he believes the crypto space currently stands from an investor perspective.

Whether you agree with all of his takes or not, you’ll definitely learn something new and walk away with not only some new perspectives but also tangible action steps you can take to help you formulate your own perspectives.

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Jon: https://twitter.com/jonwu_

LINKS

Fortyiq: https://www.fortyiq.com/
S7 E9 | Onboarding Women to Crypto w/Maggie Love: https://youtu.be/LfqCSxj6Uqg?si=IMcQySc7l_4WxwHQ

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:30 Developing a GTM strategy in web2 vs web3

5:45 Headless brands vs founder-led brands

7:18 Perfecting human-led brands with AI

12:27 What is crypto-native marketing?

17:14 Jon’s content strategy

20:16 Why Jon pivoted from building to investing

23:16 How to filter through all the content and form individual thought process

26:07 Jon’s biggest hot take in crypto

28:06 Jon’s investment thesis

33:27 How Jon predicts the future

36:05 How Jon’s experience as a builder has helped him as an investor

46:15 What Jon is most bullish on right now

50:49 Jon’s biggest can-you-not

52:06 Follow Jon

S8 E3 | Making Consumer Crypto Fun With Wearable Tech w/Winny (Chipped)

Winny, Diana Chen — Thu, 2 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Winny about all things consumer crypto and wearable tech, onboarding the masses to crypto, and her new company, Chipped, which offers NFC embedded press-on nails that link people to your socials.

What’s really inspiring about the work Winny’s doing is that she’s found a way to make consumer crypto really fun and digestible to people outside of crypto by leveraging social rather than gamified experiences.

She shares some interesting takes about why consumer crypto hasn’t been super successful to date and what we need to do differently in order to make crypto products resonate with a mainstream audience.

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Winny: https://twitter.com/winnyeth

Chipped: https://twitter.com/chippedsocial

LINKS

Chipped: https://www.chipped.social/
Gossip Protocol: https://twitter.com/gossipprotocol

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:31 Winny’s background

9:35 How to make crypto and blockchain more fun for the mainstream

11:15 Winny’s definition of consumer crypto

13:55 Why Winny is bullish on wearable tech

16:23 Pros and cons to gamifying crypto

17:56 Mental models for building wearable tech

21:48 Onboarding non-crypto users to Chipped

23:48 Backstory of Chipped (NFC press-on nails)

29:37 Privacy concerns with Chipped

30:49 Brand partnerships strategy and goals with Chipped

34:40 Quantifying vibes and identifying bad vibes in brands

36:54 Long term vision for Chipped

38:19 Winny’s biggest Can-You-Not

39:30 Follow Winny and Chipped

S8 E2 | Funding Humanitarian Aid With Crypto w/Kat (ethevacuations)

Kat Young, Diana Chen — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Kat from ethevacuations, a project that’s helping fund evacuations from Gaza with ETH.

Many of you might know Kat from her previous role as Head of Product at Zora, but since December 2023, she has been focusing her efforts on providing humanitarian aid to Palestine through crypto rails.

In this episode we talk about some of the unique behaviors and impacts crypto enables, such as increased speed and ease of international remittances, as well as some of the challenges crypto introduces.

Kat also shares her thoughts on how crypto can be used for international aid more broadly, how she handles tough conversations with friends and colleagues about the crisis that’s been going on in Palestine since October of last year, and what she wishes the mainstream knew about crypto beyond memecoins and scams.

Kat has raised over a quarter million dollars and helped safely evacuate 40 people through ethevacuations so far, and you can support her by donating directly to the wallet address listed on ethevacuations.xyz, by collecting this episode at pods.media/rehash, by tipping on Farcaster or Zora (links below), or by building ethevacuations into a split for an NFT project you’re managing.

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Kat: https://twitter.com/katalunia030

LINKS

Ethevacuations: https://ethevacuations.xyz/
Farcaster $DEGEN tips: https://warpcast.com/katalunia
Zora $ENJOY tips: https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xa4c5b777ed34a924c83a3a8b9e29b484dc1da654/3

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:05 Kat’s background

5:25 Why fundraise with crypto?

8:03 Would Kat’s work have been possible without crypto?

8:31 Challenges around off ramping with crypto

9:40 Converting crypto to fiat for humanitarian aid

10:24 How much money has Kat raised through ethevacuations?

12:39 Reaction from crypto community to support humanitarian aid

13:24 Kat’s recommendations for handling sensitive conversations about Palestine

21:35 Is it easier to send crypto or fiat overseas?

22:55 Good use cases for crypto in international humanitarian aid

25:20 What Kat wished the mainstream knew about crypto and the positive impact it can have on the world

27:20 How can people support Kat’s work?

29:44 Follow Kat

[BONUS] Crypto The Game Season 2 Recap, Reunion, and Confessions

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this special bonus episode of Rehash, we’re recapping Season 2 of Crypto The Game (CTG) with CTG founders and getting some juicy confessions from some of the finalists and players.

We start by chatting with Dylan Abruscato, Tyler Cagle, and Bryan Lee from the CTG team about their thoughts on what went well this season and what they might change for future seasons. We get a behind the scenes look into their decision making around some of the changes in gameplay this season and whether they were able to predict the outcomes from the season.

We then speak with Eva Beylin, representing CTG Season 2 winner, Player #733, Will Hunter and Nico Valencia, who were finalists in Season 2, and Katy Jeremko, who almost made it to the finals and had a fiery and controversial gameplay with boyfriend, Nico. All four players share their strategy and gameplay and reveal some shocking confessions.

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Crypto The Game: https://twitter.com/cryptothegame_

Dylan Abruscato: https://twitter.com/DylanAbruscato

Tyler Cagle: https://twitter.com/tjcages

Bryan Lee: https://twitter.com/junmobius

Eva Beylin: https://twitter.com/evabeylin

Will Hunter: https://twitter.com/wlhunter25

Nico Valencia: https://twitter.com/nico_valencia

Katy Jeremko: https://twitter.com/0xKaty

LINKS

Crypto The Game: https://www.cryptothegame.com/
CTG Season 1 Recap on Rehash: https://youtu.be/vwEmkO10K1o?si=pKfa7YXM0doaybS6

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:08 CTG S2 Recap

5:51 How many players were doxxed vs anon?

6:41 What was the NFT based mechanic used in Season 2 of CTG?

11:22 CTG founders’ thoughts on finale and winner

15:25 How Season 2 was different from Season 1

23:19 Most and least successful parts of Season 2 of CTG

30:17 Final thoughts from founders of CTG

33:52 Recap of finalists’ campaigns

41:14 Players share their strategies and gameplay

44:20 Will’s big confession

46:57 Diana’s confession

48:02 How the players would change the game in future seasons

52:19 How players would play the game differently in future seasons

56:26 More player confessions

S8 E1 | Multiparty Ops Onchain w/Jonah Erlich (Den)

Diana Chen — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Jonah Erlich about what a multisignature wallet is, how it’s different from MPC (multiparty computation), best security practices for managing a multisig, and how to be a good multisig signer.

Jonah experienced many of the common challenges multisig signers face when he was operating as a core team member of ConstitutionDAO back in late 2022, which is what inspired him to build Den, a tool that helps teams operate more quickly, safely, and effectively onchain through things like human readable descriptions, notifications, recurring transactions, and much more which Jonah shares more about in this episode.

We wrap up with a few “can you nots” where we share some of our biggest pet peeves about things multisig signers or people operating in crypto in general like to do, and Jonah overdelivers on his campaign promise to tell an embarrassing childhood story about Diana by telling not one but two embarrassing childhood stories about her.

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Jonah: https://twitter.com/Jierlich

Den: https://twitter.com/onchainden

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:10 How Jonah campaigned for his spot on Rehash

6:17 What is a multisgnature wallet?

10:42 Multisig vs MPC

14:40 How to be a good multisig signer and best practices

29:55 What is Den?

32:44 How Den makes multisig ops easier

38:31 How does Den make money?

39:38 How does the Den team ship so fast?

44:50 What Jonah would improve about the Safe ecosystem

47:38 Long term vision for Den

49:55 Can You Not

54:48 Jonah’s embarrassing story about Diana

59:57 Follow Jonah

[BONUS] LIVE FROM DENVER: L2 WARS

Binji, Disruption Joe, Diana Chen, Hudson Jameson — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:42:04 +0000

On our final special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re holding our first ever debate between three major L2 chains: Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. The representatives from each chain are Hudson Jameson (Polygon), Disruption Joe (Arbitrum), and Binji (Optimism).

Each representative gives opening and closing statements about why the layer 2 chain they’re working on is the best one, shares some popular use cases for projects building on their chain, and some even attack other chains in an attempt to win the L2 wars.

This debate is all in good fun, as we all believe in a multichain future and are rooting for the success of all three chains, but we do wrap up the episode by asking our live studio audience to vote on which chain they’re most bullish on after hearing the debates.

At the end of the day, we all want each other to win, and we all want Ethereum to win.

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Hudson: https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson

Joe: https://twitter.com/DisruptionJoe

Binji: https://twitter.com/binji_x

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:02 Arbitrum opening statement

6:34 Polygon opening statement

8:57 Optimism opening statement

12:11 Optimism use cases

14:42 Polygon use cases

18:54 Arbitrum use cases

22:20 Polygon closing statement

25:30 Optimism closing statement

29:26 Arbitrum closing statement

32:49 Which L2 is the winner?

33:37 Follow Hudson, Joe, and Binji

S7 E10 | Unpacking Solana and DeFi Education w/Caitlin Cook

Caitlin Cook, Diana Chen — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Caitlin Cook, Head of Communications and Marketing at Hxro Labs, a distributed liquidity layer for derivatives trading and betting on Solana.

Caitlin is the first guest from the Solana ecosystem that we’ve had on the podcast, so we had to take advantage of this time to ask her all the questions about Solana. Caitlin talks about some trends she’s seeing on Solana that are unique to the ecosystem, why she believes Solana has grown so much, and what role she sees Solana playing in our multichain world moving forward.

Prior to joining Hxro Labs, where she works now, Caitlin was a DeFi educator for about 18 months, primarily educating TradFi institutions about DeFi but also creating educational content for the general public as well, so we chatted about her experiences with that and what she found to be the most convincing narratives for both the general public as well as TradFi institutions to pique their curiosity about DeFi and begin to onboard them.

Finally, Caitlin shared some great insights on the best ways to onboard the next billion users to crypto.

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Caitlin: https://twitter.com/DeadCaitBounce

Hxro: https://twitter.com/HxroNetwork

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:16 Solana overview

12:11 Best projects being built on Solana

23:27 Solana’s role in the multichain world

27:15 Vibes/culture in Solana

30:06 Why has Solana seen so much growth lately?

31:39 DeFi education for consumers

43:33 DeFi education for institutions

51:03 Caitlin’s thoughts on memecoins

54:48 Caitlin’s price predictions for Bitcoin/Ethereum/Solana ATH

57:32 Follow Caitlin

[BONUS] LIVE FROM DENVER: THE MULTICHAIN WORLD

Irene Wu, Foobar, Munam Wasi, Diana Chen — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re speaking with Irene Wu, Foobar, and Munam about the multichain world.

We start by identifying some of the challenges of building for cross chain interoperability and whether certain tradeoffs will inevitably exist in a multichain world.

Then, we speculate on what a multichain world might look like, how far away from that ideal future we currently are, and what needs to happen in order for us to reach the next billion people with crypto.

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Irene: https://twitter.com/IreneWu27

Foobar: https://twitter.com/0xfoobar

Munam: https://twitter.com/MunamWasi

LayerZero: https://twitter.com/layerzero_labs

Clusters: https://twitter.com/clustersxyz

LINKS

LayerZero: https://layerzero.network/
Clusters: https://clusters.xyz/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:34 Why are there so many blockchains?

8:39 Challenges of cross chain interoperability

17:57 What does a multichain world look like?

25:32 Disadvantages of a multichain world

34:21 When will a multichain world exist?

36:29 Do we need more innovation in the next cycle?

40:16 Final thoughts

45:19 Follow Irene, Foobar, and Munam

S7 E9 | Onboarding Women to Crypto w/Maggie Love

Maggie Love, Diana Chen — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Maggie Love, founder of SheFi, about onboarding newcomers to crypto and making web3 a friendlier space for women and non-binary folks.

SheFi is an organization that’s empowering professional women and nonbinary folks to reinvent careers in frontier industries like web3 and AI. They’re currently on their 10th cohort and have almost 3,000 members.

Maggie has primarily been working on SheFi on a part time basis outside of her full time job and just recently went full time with SheFi, so we’re really excited to see what comes next.

We had the special privilege of recording this episode live in person with Maggie during our Rehash event at ETH Denver, and we hope you find this episode as inspiring as we did.

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Maggie: https://twitter.com/maggielove_

SheFi: https://twitter.com/shefiorg

LINKS

SheFi: https://www.shefi.org/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:53 SheFi origin story

6:22 The original SheFi community

9:58 SheFi curriculum

13:54 Funding SheFi

18:57 How Maggie deals with Twitter trolls

22:01 Best ways to onboard people to crypto

25:28 Managing a global community

30:18 Women specific panels - good or bad?

33:07 Future of SheFi

37:27 Follow Maggie and SheFi

[BONUS] LIVE FROM DENVER: CRYPTO THE GAME (CTG)

Diana Chen — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

On this special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re speaking with Dylan and Tyler, co-founders of Crypto The Game, as well as Richie and Tina, two finalists from Season 1 of CTG.

Dylan and Tyler share behind the scenes secrets on the creation of Season 1 of CTG, including how they came up with the challenges, issues they had to tackle in real time, and unexpected things to come out of the game.

Richie and Tina then share their perspective of CTG as not only players, but finalists. They share their very different strategies throughout the game, building alliances, and what they would do differently next season.

Finally, Dylan and Tyler reveal some alpha on what you can expect from Season 2 of CTG, which will be launching soon.

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Dylan: https://twitter.com/DylanAbruscato

Tyler: https://twitter.com/tjcages

Richie: https://twitter.com/richiebonilla

Tina: https://twitter.com/howdai27

Crypto The Game: https://twitter.com/cryptothegame_

LINKS

Crypto The Game: https://cryptothegame.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:22 What is Crypto The Game (CTG)?

3:10 Backstory of CTG

4:24 Why crypto?

7:43 Creator expectations vs reality

11:49 Origin of challenges

13:25 Winner predictions

17:59 What the creators would change about Season 2

18:49 Finalists’ perspective and strategy

46:36 Follow Dylan, Tyler, Richie, and Tina

S7 E8 | Onchain Media, Culture & Distribution w/Richie Bonilla

Richie Bonilla, Diana Chen — Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Richie Bonilla, founder of Forage, about onchain distribution and culture, how to introduce new consumer behaviors, and thinking beyond skeuomorphic models.

Richie is a repeat guest who previously made an appearance on Rehash almost a year ago in S4 E7 where he talked about the future of independent work.

Today, Richie is working on Forage, the easiest way for people to discover and support their favorite onchain projects. You’ll hear us mention his new product as Quests in this episode, but since we recorded this episode, the product has actually been renamed to Forage and you can find it at forage.xyz.

In this highly conversational episode, Richie and I talk through traditional models of distribution in media that have failed us and left a bad taste in our mouth and propose new models of onchain distribution that break down a lot of the assumptions we’ve made about concepts like advertising and ownership.

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Richie: https://twitter.com/richiebonilla

Forage: https://twitter.com/foragexyz_

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:17 Problems with traditional distribution models

9:04 How do we introduce new human behaviors?

23:39 What is onchain culture?

34:51 Onchain distribution and growth

43:00 What is Forage? (prev: Quests)

50:51 Will BTC/ETH reach ATH in 2024?

S7 E7 | Rethinking Community Building Through Crypto Rails w/aiio

aiio, Diana Chen — Fri, 1 Mar 2024 07:27:04 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Irina Panovich (aka aiio) about non-linear models for cultural production, the importance of physicality and play when exploring emerging tech, and the importance of experimentation in crypto.

For the last five years, aiio has been experimenting with an arts and tech collective in Copenhagen called 320 Colab, testing out various theses relating to funding for artists and creatives. This is her first time sharing publicly on a podcast about her experiences and learnings from that experiment.

We talk a lot in this episode about experimenting in crypto, especially with community and culture, and aiio shares some key learnings and advice for building a community around foundational values and using human centered design.

She also gives us a sneak peek into a new project she’s working on right now that will be launching soon - a new podcast with UFO that she’ll be using to experiment with new forms and models for podcasting.

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aiio: https://twitter.com/cattfutur

LINKS

Liminal State: https://liminalstate.bandcamp.com/
UFO Ep 47: https://ufo.mirror.xyz/Pifu_UYAW7nvMVkCmLY7y84rzF9er_cuqFaRzvf6DTI
Additional reading:
- Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wrigley
- Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty and Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain by Ruth Catlow and friends
- The Archipelago Conversations by Édouard Glissant and Hans Ulrich Obrist
- After the Internet. Digital Networks between the Capital and the Common by Tiziana Terranova
- The Carrier Bag of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin
- The Dawn of Everything by David Græber
- Oneness v the 1% by Vandana Shiva
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- Science in Action by Bruno Latour
- Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art x Decentralised Tech by https://futureartecosystems.org
- Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets by Christian Borch
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:06 How aiio got involved with 320 Colab

10:56 Non-linear frameworks for artists’ monetization

15:11 How aiio would run 320 Colab differently today

19:14 How important are in person experiences?

24:13 The importance of play in tech

27:42 Resources for community builders

30:14 How to build culture better

40:42 aiio’s new project

44:27 Will ETH/BTC reach ATH in 2024?

45:32 Follow aiio

S7 E6 | Dissecting Crypto Infrastructure w/Eshita

Eshita Nandini, Diana Chen — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Eshita, Head of Strategy at Astria, about the current state of crypto infra, why developer tooling is lagging, and we get to the bottom of what shared sequencers are.

After spending a couple of years researching the crypto ecosystem, Eshita started to feel like a bystander and wanted to become more of an active participant in the ecosystem, so she recently joined Astria to help build out their shared sequencer network.

Astria allows many rollups to share a single decentralized network of sequencers, which increases censorship resistance and enables faster block confirmations, all while allowing each rollup to maintain their own sovereignty.

We then zoom out a bit and look at crypto infrastructure as a whole, and Eshita shares what she believes to be some of the most important pieces in the infra space right now as well as areas where she hopes to see more development and innovation moving forward.

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Eshita: https://twitter.com/eshita

Astria: https://twitter.com/astriaorg

LINKS

The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase (USV): https://www.usv.com/writing/2018/10/the-myth-of-the-infrastructure-phase/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:03 How Eshita got into crypto

6:33 From researcher to operator

7:30 What are shared sequencers?

19:46 Current state of crypto infra

28:28 What are modular blockchains, and what is Celestia?

35:20 Will infra still be the focus of the next cycle?

39:06 Eshita’s bullish predictions for ETH/BTC ATH

40:41 Follow Eshita

S7 E5 | Unlocking Human Potential w/Julia Lipton

Julia Lipton, Diana Chen — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Julia Lipton, Founder and General Partner at Awesome People Ventures, about unlocking latent potential in humans, finding product market fit in web3 communities, and the most important things happening in the global landscape right now.

In many ways it’s surprising that it took us until Season 7 to bring Julia on the podcast because she has actually played a part in Rehash from Day 0 as you’ll hear us talk about at the beginning of this episode. Julia is an investor, connector of people, and all around one of the kindest and most generous humans I’ve encountered in this space.

In this episode we start out by talking about DAO Masters, a project she crowdfunded through Mirror that ended up winding down last summer, and what she learned about the give-get equation through her experience there. She wrote a really thoughtful Twitter thread about the give-get equation that I’ve linked in the show notes and would encourage you all to check out, especially if you’re someone working in or adjacent to the DAO ecosystem.

We then get into a discussion around why there’s so much latent and unused human talent floating around in the corporate world and what people have been doing about it, such as flocking to freelance and contract work, or even to DAOs. Obviously DAOs aren’t perfect and are far from it, but Julia shares some strategies she thinks could be implemented for DAOs to be more effective in their operations while maintaining the same draw they have for people today.

Finally, we talk about what Julia is most focused on in the global landscape with crypto and nintynick chimes in with a question about progressive decentralization.

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Julia: https://twitter.com/JuliaLipton

Awesome People Ventures: https://twitter.com/awesomepeoplehq

LINKS

Give/get equation

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:10 Julia’s involvement with Rehash from Day 0

4:34 Why DAO Masters shut down

10:29 Communities as products

17:04 Why human talent is so underutilized in corporate world

22:25 What v2 of DAOs might look like

26:46 Awesome People Ventures and Awesome People Talent

31:31 Global landscape for freelancers

32:23 Development of global currencies

37:15 Types of projects Julia is focused on in 2024

39:45 Progressive decentralization

42:25 BTC/ETH ATH 2024

43:17 Follow Julia

S7 E4 | Building, Investing, and Finding Ikigai in Crypto w/13yearoldvc

13yearoldvc, Diana Chen — Thu, 8 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with 13yearoldvc, Ecosystem Lead at Eigenlayer, about how she studied 50 projects a day to identify trends as a VC, why she now enjoys building more than investing, and what it is about Eigenlayer that she believes makes it a really special one of a kind project.

“If you can’t explain it to a 10 year old in 2 minutes or less, don’t own it.” -Peter Lynch

Few people in web3 are very good at explaining crypto and blockchain concepts in a way that’s easy for mainstream consumers to understand (myself included), but 13yearoldvc is different. She came into this episode loaded with analogies that make complex topics like staking and data availability and seemingly complex projects like Eigenlayer easily understandable to a 10 year old.

On a more personal note, she shares how she found her ikigai with her work at Eigenlayer now and her best advice for others to find their ikigai. She also shares her best advice for others who want to succeed as a VC or as a builder in web3 or both.

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13yearoldvc: https://twitter.com/13yearoldvc

Eigenlayer: https://twitter.com/eigenlayer

LINKS

Eigenlayer Blog: https://www.blog.eigenlayer.xyz/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:25 The story behind 13yearoldvc’s name

4:21 Why 13yearoldvc hated being a VC

8:46 Does 13yearoldvc still invest in crypto?

9:09 Why 13yearoldvc wanted to work at Eigenlayer

13:19 Stakers and operators 101

16:17 What is Eigenlayer? (ELI5)

18:44 What does an Ecosystem Lead do?

22:50 13yearoldvc’s honest take on data availability

27:57 Fundamentals and pumpamentals

29:30 Finding ikigai

33:51 How to prepare yourself for the next bull run

35:15 Telegram bots

39:21 Questions from Twitter

42:13 ATH for ETH and BTC in 2024

46:32 Follow 13yearoldvc

S7 E3 | God Tech, Money Tech, and Onchain AI w/Gabriel (Mochi)

Diana Chen — Thu, 1 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Gabriel, founder of Mochi, a coordination game for autonomous worlds.

AI and blockchain are two buzzwords anyone operating remotely adjacent to the tech space has heard a lot of in recent years, but we haven’t heard much of the two concepts operating together.

Gabriel believes there’s actually a strong case for AI and blockchain to operate together, and in this episode he shares why he believes blockchain and crypto can have a strong impact on AI and provides a plethora of fascinating examples and future use cases for the two to interoperate.

We then get into a discussion about autonomous worlds - how Gabriel defines them, what they unlock, and why they might be the next evolution of DAOs.

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Gabriel: https://twitter.com/playerzer0x

Mochi: https://twitter.com/bondwithmochi

LINKS

Mochi: https://mochi.game/
Botto: https://www.botto.com/
Eternal Garden: https://eternal-garden.xyz/
DreamTensor: https://www.instagram.com/dreamtensor/
S5 E5 | Onchain World Building w/Peter Pan: https://rehash.mirror.xyz/GKqi1D_RMV_96mAUixdeRVDLUrRVr9lLFKtRrKDB4Ok

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:48 How do blockchain and AI work together?

10:48 Barbenheimer Meme Bomb

17:09 Implications of onchain AI on real world scenarios

20:47 What are autonomous worlds?

28:23 Are autonomous worlds the next evolution of DAOs?

31:02 Real world applications of autonomous worlds

35:16 Questions from Twitter

44:12 Gabriel’s predictions for ETH/BTC high prices in 2024

46:43 Follow Gabriel

S7 E2 | Bitcoin ETFs & Avoiding Scams w/Birb

Birb, Diana Chen — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Birb aka Chairman Birb Bernanke aka bonecondor on Twitter all about the new Bitcoin ETF and best security practices in crypto.

Birb started her career in TradFi and was a product manager for a number of years before joining OtterSec, a blockchain security audits company. We start out by talking about the Bitcoin ETF, and Birb patiently answers a lot of my very basic questions, like what is an ETF and how is it different from index funds, before we move into more interesting questions like is this a good move for the crypto industry overall and what does this tell us about how the SEC will be treating crypto companies in 2024.

After we figure out what a Bitcoin ETF is, we get into a discussion about security best practices for DeFi protocols and other companies building onchain. Birb shares her best pieces of advice for organizations and for end users to avoid scams and hacks and gives us an inside look into what really goes on behind the scenes of some of these hacks.

S7 E1 | How to Not Get Rekt in Crypto w/DeFi Beats

DeFi Beats, Diana Chen — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On our first episode of Season 7, we’re speaking with DeFi Beats aka Johnny Gabriele about how to not get rekt in crypto, why WAGMI is not dead, and his best pieces of advice for newcomers to the crypto and blockchain space.

DeFi Beats is an advisor, investor, DeFi power user, good listener, and self admittedly terrible speller.

He initially had his sights set on getting his PhD and becoming a professor, but when that plan fell through, he found himself in a unique job as part management consultant, part podcaster, and part therapist where he helped numerous people find solutions to problems they were facing across a wide spectrum of areas - from air conditioning to figure skating to life threatening medical conditions.

Today, he has rechanneled his eagerness to help into helping onboard people to the blockchain space and saving people from getting rekt by their inner degenerate. He’s currently building out an AI chatbot called The Crypto Professor that’s designed to help newcomers learn about crypto and stay safe while exploring the space.

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DeFi Beats: https://twitter.com/defi_beats

LINKS

The Crypto Professor: https://twitter.com/Crypt0Profess0r
Stand With Crypto: https://www.standwithcrypto.org/politicians

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:03 DeFi Beats’ background

13:47 How DeFi Beats discovered blockchain

18:03 How to get politicians to pay attention to crypto

21:07 Crypto onboarding AI chatbot

24:02 DeFi Beats’ biggest lessons learned for newcomers

28:46 How to find new friends in crypto

36:03 Fixed vs non-fixed mindset

40:57 Questions from Twitter

45:52 BTC/ETH price predictions for 2024

47:03 Follow DeFi Beats

S6 BONUS: 2023 Wrap Up & 2024 Predictions w/Hudson Jameson, Sirsu, Maya Bakhai, and Stefen Deleveaux

Sirsu, Stefen Deleveaux, Maya Bakhai, Diana Chen, Hudson Jameson — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:25:53 +0000

On this bonus episode of Season 6, we bring back some of your favorite Rehash guests from the past to share their perspectives on what happened in 2023 and what they are most bullish on moving forward to 2024. Hudson Jameson (S6 E5), Sirsu (S5 E1), Maya Bakhai (S5 E3), and Stefen Deleveaux (S2 E11) join us to wrap up the year from a wide array of perspectives, including DAOs, gaming, technical, and VC.

This episode was a ton of fun to record and hopefully just as fun to listen to. It’s filled with great insights as well that, when combined, paint a holistic picture of where the Ethereum ecosystem stands today.

Stay tuned for announcements on upcoming guest elections for Season 7 and fun new plans for the new year. Also, if you’re interested in sponsoring Rehash, please check out rehashweb3.xyz/sponsor for more information or reach out at rehashweb3@gmail.com.

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Hudson Jameson: https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson

Sirsu: https://twitter.com/sirsuhayb

Maya Bakhai: https://twitter.com/MayaBakhai

Stefen Deleveaux: https://twitter.com/stefdelev

LINKS

DAOs, DACs, DAs, and More by Vitalik Buterin: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide
DevCon0 Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJqWcTqh_zKEjpSej3ddtDOKPRGl_7MhS&si=NpCuno1DBufA_xYm
Oasis Onchain: https://www.oasisonchain.xyz/
Past guest appearances:
- S6 E5 | Ethereum Secrets & Avoiding Burnout w/Hudson Jameson: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/s6-e5-ethereum-secrets-avoiding-burnout-w-hudson-jameson
- S5 E1 | Competition, Community, and Culture w/Sirsu: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/s5-e1-competition-community-culture
- S5 E3 | Adding Spice to Venture Capital w/Maya Bakhai: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/s5-e3-adding-spice-to-venture-capital-w-maya-bakhai
- S3 E11 | DAO Governance, Tooling, and Culture w/Stefen Deleveaux: https://rehash.simplecast.com/episodes/dao-governance-tooling-and-culture-with-stefen-deleveaux

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:48 VC summary of 2023 crypto

11:33 DAO update 2023

22:43 Raising money in 2023

25:33 Technical recap of 2023

37:33 Consumer crypto is winning

39:43 What our guests are bullish on in 2024

48:26 Oasis Onchain

52:28 Rapid fire round

56:21 Game: Categories

S6 E11 | Harnessing Collective Intelligence w/Dan Hunt

Dan Hunt, Diana Chen — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

On our final episode of Season 6, we’re speaking with Dan Hunt, co-founder of Foster, about deliberately developmental organizations, how we can help individuals within an organization grow individually while also growing together, and some practical strategies for overcoming common challenges faced in decentralized organizations.

Foster is a collaborative organization for editorial and writing support, and also deeply involved in several other communities across the crypto and web3 space where he’s helped facilitate the human and relational side of each organization.

This episode contains equal parts theoretical and philosophical principles, as well as practical and actionable steps any leader or member of an organization can take to strengthen the culture within their organization.

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Dan: https://twitter.com/dan2hunt

Foster: https://twitter.com/0xFoster

LINKS

Dan’s Substack: danhunt.substack.com
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan: https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Culture-Deliberately-Developmental-Organization/dp/1625278624
Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux: https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=580766137634&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9033780&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11010857034710310604&hvtargid=kwd-73133255316&hydadcr=21905_13324233&keywords=reinventing+organizations&qid=1703114589&sr=8-1

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:40 Common challenges in decentralized organizations

5:37 How to spot a cult leader

9:10 Becoming ourselves, together

13:13 Conflict resolution in DAOs

19:04 Resources for communicating and organizing better

24:10 The deliberately developmental organization framework

31:56 Best practices for developing values in an organization

38:23 Best way to scale a deliberately developmental organization

43:50 Follow Dan

S6 E10 | Crypto Use Cases for Mass Adoption w/David Phelps

David Phelps, Diana Chen — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with David Phelps, co-founder of JokeRace, about fun ways to gamify governance and his biggest takeaways from recent conferences he attended on the current state of crypto and what we should be focusing on in this space in the near future.

This is David’s second appearance on Rehash and will be a bit of a sequel to the first one, so if you’re not familiar with David or JokeRace, pause this episode and go back and listen to S3 E2 from September 15, 2022 first for context on what you’re about to hear in this episode.

JokeRace is a contest platform for communities to make, execute, and reward decisions. Rehash has been using JokeRace since its early days to help decide which guests appear on the podcast, and you can learn more about that on our website at rehashweb3.xyz.

Speaking of which, our next round of guest nominations will be starting right after the holidays in early January, so make sure you’re following us on socials and subscribed to us on Mirror or Substack to make sure you don’t miss any announcements on that.

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David: https://twitter.com/divine_economy

JokeRace: https://twitter.com/jokerace_xyz

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:03 Updates on JokeRace

4:28 Downvoting

5:55 Rehashing David’s first appearance on the pod

6:19 ArbitrumDAO grants contest

8:54 Executability feature

12:46 Fun, new use cases for JokeRace

22:48 Biggest takeaways from DevConnect Istanbul and Art Basel

36:20 Crypto projects David is most bullish on

38:44 Cats of Istanbul

40:18 David’s best joke

41:32 Question from the community

42:44 Follow David

S6 E9 | Crypto-Enabled Livestreaming w/Ravi Bakhai

Ravi Bakhai, Diana Chen — Thu, 7 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Ravi Bakhai, founder of Hypeshot, about why livestreaming is a compelling medium across so many industries, what a crypto-enabled live streaming platform unlocks for creators, and future livestreaming trends we can expect to see in the next five years.

Even though livestreaming has technically been around since the early 1990s, with the very first livestream taking place in 1993 when a few employees from Xerox PARC in California decided to livestream their buddies’ band performance, livestreaming didn’t really pick up steam until the late 2000s or early 2010s when YouTube launched livestreaming and Twitch was born.

Since then, livestreaming has seen a slow but steady growth, primarily in niche communities. More recently, however, livestreaming has been seeping into a wider array of industries and creator types. Now we’re not just seeing gamers streaming on Twitch, but we’re also seeing artists, musicians, and other types of creators in the streaming scene. On the opposite end of that spectrum, we’re seeing big corporations building livestreaming into their corporate marketing and communications strategies as well.

Ravi also shares the latest on Hypeshot, the crypto-enabled live streaming platform he’s building, as well as how some of his favorite streamers have been using the crypto elements there. Finally, we riff on some serious and some not so serious use cases we’d like to see on Hypeshot in the future.

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Ravi: https://twitter.com/ravibakhai

Hypeshot: https://twitter.com/HypeshotHQ

LINKS

“Life is Non-fungible” Ted Talk (Roham Gharegozlou): https://youtu.be/u894J50AqOs?si=9cHa9r15HVK6eZvA

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:29 Origin story of Hypeshot

6:25 Free to consume, valuable to own

7:33 History of livestreaming

13:35 Monetizing from livestreaming

14:35 What crypto unlocks for livestreaming

18:11 Hypeshot vs Unlonely vs Livepeer

20:21 Distribution in web3 media

23:10 Ravi’s favorite Hypeshot streamers

23:42 New use cases for crypto-enabled livestreaming

27:28 Future of web3 livestreaming

32:49 Who Ravi wants to hear on the podcast

33:39 How Ravi crypto pills his friends and family

36:35 Follow Ravi

S6 E8 | Building Decentralized Leadership w/Brennan Mulligan

Brennan Mulligan, Diana Chen — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Brennan Mulligan, DAO Program Manager at SuperRare Labs, about effective leadership strategies in DAOs, new spins on progressive decentralization, and Brennan’s new ultrarunning career.

If you’re a DAO operator or a facilitator or manager in any organization, you’ll really enjoy this episode and learn something new from Brennan. He shares so many insightful learnings from his time in DAOs and pulls from his background in cognitive science to really understand the ways in which people and organizations function.

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Brennan: https://twitter.com/Bmulligan56

SuperRare: https://twitter.com/SuperRare

LINKS

Anticapture by Spencer Graham: https://spengrah.mirror.xyz/f6bZ6cPxJpP-4K_NB7JcjbU0XblJcaf7kVLD75dOYRQ
The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Hats Protocol: https://twitter.com/hatsprotocol
ATX DAO: https://twitter.com/ATXDAO
RareDAO: https://twitter.com/rare_protocol
SuperRare Forum: http://forum.superrare.com

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:38 Brennan’s background in DAOs

6:26 Have Brennan’s feelings toward DAOs changed?

7:39 Brennan’s definition of DAO

9:07 What is “capture resistance”?

13:25 Brennan’s biggest learnings from organizing people in DAOs

21:31 Balancing inclusivity with productivity in DAOs

29:15 Trust enables centralization

35:09 Progressive decentralization

38:35 DAO compensation models

47:17 Ultrarunning and the human body as a DAO

55:28 How Brennan crypto pills his friends and family

56:13 Brennan’s podcast guest nomination next season

56:47 Brennan’s favorite tech drama

58:31 Follow Brennan

S6 E7 | Blockchain Meets Impact w/Magenta Ceiba

Magenta Ceiba, Diana Chen — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Magenta Ceiba, Principal Systems Architect at Bloom Network, about how we can use blockchain tech to empower local communities in their grassroots ecological efforts, where Magenta sees the future of regenerative finance going, and how to best organize communities in a decentralized yet still well managed and organized way.

Bloom Network is a community network that helps people find and participate in grassroots climate and social repair wherever they live around the world. They’ve implemented various aspects of blockchain technology and web3 concepts to fund their network and their people through retroactive funding mechanisms and community tokens, and they take a balanced approach to governance that any DAO or online community can learn from.

Magenta mentions a number of projects and resources in this episode, and I’ve tried to link all of them in the show notes, so if you’re interested in learning more about the projects she mentions in this episode or are looking for reputable nonprofit organizations that support various ecological causes you care about, be sure to check out the links in the show notes or on our Mirror or Substack pages at rehash.mirror.xyz and rehashweb3.substack.com.

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Magenta: https://twitter.com/magentaceiba

Bloom Network: https://twitter.com/OurBloomNetwork

LINKS

Donate to Bloom: https://bloomnetwork.earth/donate
Diamante Bridge Collective: https://bloomnetwork.earth/diamante
MUDA: http://muda-oe.com/
- Token model: https://medium.com/cambiatus/muda-experimenting-other-economies-based-on-happiness-and-abundance-b31441f42f0d
- CSAA program: https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/community-sustaining-art-and-agroecology-3fff039bb089
Climate Justice Alliance: https://climatejusticealliance.org/
Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World: https://www.amazon.com/Swarmwise-Tactical-Manual-Changing-World/dp/1463533152
Giveth: https://giveth.io/
Full list of projects on Bloom: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13sVkqMNsnOgBoRnTaLYms9WkTcGGJWDWY8L0LLwmm4s/edit

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:54 What is Bloom Network?

8:38 Transitioning from co-op to DAO

12:45 Tokenomics model for Bloom

19:44 Empowering the community to take action

29:08 Examples of real world impact through Bloom

32:35 Nature-backed NFT

34:11 The future of ReFi

38:44 What we don’t know about climate change

41:30 Resources and links for where to donate

45:23 Who Magenta wants to hear on the podcast next season

46:28 Follow Magenta

S6 E6 | Creating Mass Adoption w/Luca Netz

Luca Netz, Diana Chen — Thu, 9 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins, about how to take crypto to the mainstream, strategies for building for longevity, and Luca shares some alpha on the biggest mistake crypto founders make that results in the demise of their project.

Pudgy Penguins is an NFT pfp project on Ethereum that was launched in July 2021 and purchased by Luca in April 2022 for 750 ETH, or around $2.5M USD.

Pudgy Penguins is really the only NFT project to have reached the mainstream in any meaningful way, with their figurines and plushies now being sold in Walmart stores across the country.

They’ll also be debuting a couple of new things they’ve been working on soon, namely Overpass and Pudgy World, which Luca shares more about in this episode.

If you’re a Pudgy Penguins holder, you will love this episode, and if you work in crypto in any capacity, you’ll be able to learn something new from Luca that you can put into practice straight away to help you find success in this industry.

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Luca: https://twitter.com/LucaNetz

Pudgy Penguins: https://twitter.com/pudgypenguins

LINKS

Pudgy World: https://lobby.pudgyworld.com/
Overpass: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pudgy-penguins-ceo-unveils-licensing-140922249.html
Shark suit: https://x.com/pudgypenguins/status/1671987835518480386?s=20

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:55 Why did Luca bid on Pudgy Penguins for $2.5M?

5:26 Necessary ingredients for success

12:19 Growing an existing community vs building a new community

17:38 How to maintain culture through a bull run

23:57 Why toys?

26:54 Are toys crypto native?

31:11 Luca’s advice for NFT projects

35:43 Updates on Overpass and Pudgy World

39:02 How to license your Pudgy Penguins NFT

43:05 Pudgy Penguins rapid fire

43:27 Luca’s top 5 NFT projects to keep an eye on

44:58 How Luca crypto pills his offchain friends

46:06 Follow Luca

S6 E5 | Ethereum Secrets & Avoiding Burnout w/Hudson Jameson

Hudson Jameson, Diana Chen — Thu, 2 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Ethereum OG, Hudson Jameson, about his experiences and learnings from actively working in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2015, as well as his personal story of experiencing burnout and his journey with mental health.

Hudson is a developer who first learned about Bitcoin in 2011 and went on to create and launch the blockchain program at USAA in 2014 and join the Ethereum Foundation in 2016, where he worked until 2021. In 2019 while working at the Ethereum Foundation, Hudson also co-founded the Ethereum Cat Herders, an educational platform and research hub that supports the Ethereum Network.

In this episode, we start off by talking about some of Hudson’s learnings from his time in Ethereum, including what he believes to have been the most pivotal moment in Ethereum history, how the community and culture around Ethereum has changed since 2015, and the biggest learnings from mistakes made during Ethereum’s time that other blockchains or crypto projects can learn from today.

We then get into his takes on the current state of Ethereum and L2s, how he sees L2s interacting in the future, and a new whistleblowing use case for blockchain tech that he would love to see get built out.

Finally, we wrap up with a conversation on dealing with burnout in crypto as Hudson shares his own burnout story that landed him in a mental hospital twice and inspired him to get much more involved in his own mental health journey. It’s a story that is all too relatable to those working in crypto, and Hudson shares his honest and raw thoughts on what we can do to protect our mental health while working in crypto, as well as what institutions and employers can do to support individuals.

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Hudson: https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson

LINKS

Hudson’s blog: https://hudsonjameson.com/
The Infinite Machine by Cami Russo: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Machine-Crypto-hackers-Building-Internet-ebook/dp/B07X8HS2WC
The Cryptopians by Laura Shin: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopians-Idealism-Greed-Making-Cryptocurrency-ebook/dp/B08Y8MQ66Z
Blog on what “Ethereum alignment” means: https://hackmd.io/@abdelhamid/ethereum-alignment
DEVCON: https://devcon.org/en/
The Plasma Paper (2017): https://www.plasma.io/plasma.pdf
SEAL project updates: https://twitter.com/samczsun

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:19 Hudson’s favorite things

4:53 Most pivotal moments in Ethereum history

5:38 Biggest mistake in Ethereum history

9:55 How culture and community in Ethereum has changed since 2015

16:00 What does “Ethereum alignment” mean?

18:08 Most overlooked aspect of Ethereum

19:53 Hudson’s most fond memory of his time at the Ethereum Foundation

22:07 Technical knowledge that non-technical people should have

25:14 Hudson’s product review of Ethereum

26:27 State of L2s

32:19 Whistleblowing blockchain app

34:37 Hudson’s mental health journey and burnout story

40:30 How to avoid burnout in crypto

46:29 How crypto companies can support their employees’ mental health

52:06 Hudson’s final thoughts

54:15 Question from the community

56:00 Follow Hudson

S6 E4 | Art NFT Curation in a Bear Market w/María Paula Fernández

María Paula Fernández, Diana Chen — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with María Paula Fernández, co-founder of JPG and a true OG in the NFT space, about living through another bear market, how to be a good web3 art curator, and new blockchain art projects that should be on your radar.

We catch up on what MP's been up to since our last recording together and how she’s been feeling amidst yet another crypto bear market - and notably one that feels different from previous bear markets she’s lived through. Even though overall sentiments are a bit low, I can always rely on Maria to bring some humor into the mix, as we come to the shocking realization that Michael Lewis is in fact the new Tom Cruise (tune into this episode and you’ll hear what I mean).

We then dive deep into the world of art curation and what the role of a curator is, especially in the web3 world. MP believes a good web3 curator is a good storyteller and a good educator, and we look at a new JPG exhibit, Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm, as an example of good curation.

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MP: https://twitter.com/MPtherealmvp

JPG: https://twitter.com/______jpg______

LINKS

September 2021 interview with María Paula on The Unstoppable Podcast: https://youtu.be/EuhPFMecezY
S4 E6 | Art You Can’t See w/Sarah Meyhoas & Mitchell Chan: https://rehash.mirror.xyz/-aihBv_hJwt8iWd91XubvPMs_GQxt4sX2GUAWW-hCKk
Web by Jan Robert Leegte: https://web.leegte.org/
Stevie P: https://steviep.xyz/
Sacra Famiglia by Ann Hirsch: https://www.sacra.family/
Dear Scammer by Ann Hirsch: https://www.hiddengems.fyi/p/dear-scammer-letters-by-ann-hirsch
The Boys of Summer by Mitchell Chan: https://chan.gallery/boysofsummer/
Bitchcoin by Sarah Meyohas: https://sarahmeyohas.com/bitchcoin/
Crypto Certs by Ed Fornieles: https://www.edfornielesstudios.com/
GALLERY: https://twitter.com/GALLERY
Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm: https://naturalstatic.jpg.space/exhibition
Natural Static: https://naturalstatic.jpg.space/
Social Contracts: https://socialcontracts.jpg.space/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:32 How MP stays up to date on SBF drama

8:32 Is there still too much toxic positivity in crypto?

13:45 What successful NFT projects all have in common

15:56 MP’s favorite NFT projects

19:20 Market Makers event in Berlin

26:06 What makes a good web3 art NFT curator?

37:51 Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm

41:26 Natural Static by Jonathan Chomko

47:03 Where MP sees NFTs being in 10 years

49:22 MP’s favorite crypto drama

51:49 Follow MP

S6 E3 | Onchain Media: The Next Era of Advertising and Brand Building w/Steph Alinsug

Steph Alinsug, Diana Chen — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Steph Alinsug, founder of VESSEL, the launchpad for onchain media. We talk about what onchain media is, how we can rethink advertising, and what companies can do with more relevant information on their users.

Steph is one of the few repeat guests we’ve had on Rehash. The first time she was on the podcast was almost exactly one year ago in November of last year, and you can listen to Rehash S3 E10 for more context on her thinking around how web3 media has evolved over the last year.

As it turns out, onchain media refers to so much more than simply putting pieces of media onchain, and its effects can be seen and felt across a wide berth of marketing, advertising, and branding initiatives for individual creators and large corporations alike.

Steph challenges us to rethink what we know about advertising and keep an open mind to new, value additive forms of advertising that can actually benefit consumers instead of the value extractive forms of advertising we’ve all grown to know and not love. She paints a picture of what the marketing stack could look like for companies in the future and the ways in which onchain media can help companies better understand their customers so that they can, in turn, provide more targeted value to their most loyal supporters.

If you work in the marketing space or if you’re a creator or founder, you won’t want to miss this episode as you’ll learn a lot of innovative concepts to help you rethink your brand and marketing strategy.

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Steph: https://twitter.com/cryptohun3y

VESSEL: https://twitter.com/onvessel_world

LINKS

S3 E10 w/Steph Alinsug: https://youtu.be/Hgix7aBdgOk?si=_fBzKKwqrtYPdWkQ
Thinx Ad: https://s3.r29static.com/bin/entry/d4c/640x427,85/1493957/image.webp
Onchain Summer: https://onchainsummer.xyz/
Lens: https://twitter.com/LensProtocol
Farcaster: https://twitter.com/farcaster_xyz
The Box (Decent): https://www.decent.xyz/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:11 How Steph’s thinking around web3 media has evolved over the last year

3:48 What is onchain media?

4:25 Why would media need to be onchain?

9:55 How Glossier could benefit from onchain media

12:06 How onchain media can benefit podcasters

13:15 Onchain advertising

18:10 Twitter question from Rob (Ambire)

21:24 Future of onchain media

26:32 How to achieve our ideal media future

30:51 Everything you need to know about VESSEL

37:31 How Steph crypto pills her friends and family

40:43 Follow Steph and VESSEL

S6 E2 | Monetizing Music Through Fail Proof Incentives w/Laura Jaramillo

Laura Jaramillo, Diana Chen — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Laura Jaramillo, CEO and co-founder of SONA, about helping artists build a more sustainable revenue, designing fail proof protocol incentives, and using music to onboard the next billion users to crypto.

Like many of us, Laura’s journey into crypto was a winding one with many seemingly mismatched pieces that somehow all came together and are contributing to her work at SONA today. After turning down a deal from a major record label at age 16 to become the next Shakira, Laura decided to pursue furniture design at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), which eventually led her into product and protocol design and designing what is now SONA, a platform to help musicians monetize their music in a different way.

We do a couple of deep dives in this episode - the first one on how to build a sustainable revenue for artists by implementing crypto and DeFi primitives into a music streaming service, and the second on how to design the most effective incentives for a protocol that’s resistant to spam bots and token miners.

We also talk about her new project, SONA, the super random way in which she met her co-founder, TOKiMONSTA, and Laura and Diana have a full circle moment when Diana realizes that a party she had attended almost a year ago during Art Basel was in fact a party put on by Laura and TOKiMONSTA to celebrate one year of their meeting and the birth of SONA.

If you’re a musician or creator or any kind, or if you have any interest in the creator economy from any angle, you’ll want to listen to this episode. To get exclusive access to check out SONA and sign up as an early user, fill out the typeform linked below.

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Laura: https://twitter.com/LauraTJD

SONA: https://twitter.com/sonastream

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:05 Laura’s background

9:12 Rejecting a music label at age 16

14:44 History of music consumption

17:33 How monetization works on SONA

21:27 Why is SONA a protocol and not just an app?

23:33 How to design a generous protocol

29:09 Web2 vs web3 incentive design

32:13 Origin story of SONA

39:43 How Laura onboards friends to crypto

44:56 Follow Laura and SONA

S6 E1 | Intersection of Onchain and Physical w/Maz & Eiman

Maz, Eiman Soliman, Diana Chen — Thu, 5 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On our first episode of Season 6, we have the privilege of speaking with Maz and Eiman, co-founders of Crowdmuse, a platform for multiplayer collaboration on fashion drops and digital IP rights.

Maz and Eiman explain what digiphysical goods are, not just in the context of fashion, but as it relates to any physical item with a digital counterpart, or vice versa. They do an excellent job of explaining what the benefits are for digital goods to have a physical counterpart, why we might need certain products to be stored on the blockchain, and how onchain IP works.

That naturally led into a conversation about consumer crypto because not only is that what all the VCs are talking about nowadays, but digiphysical goods also live primarily in the consumer space. Maz and Eiman talk about how onchain consumer products will change the way we view identity, community, and brands and whether we should expect to see digiphysical goods permeating into all industries, not just the entertainment and consumer space as we’ve seen it to date.

Finally, Maz and Eiman give us an insider look into Crowdmuse, and Eiman answers a spicy question from the community.

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Maz: https://twitter.com/mmazco

Eiman: https://twitter.com/eimsoliman

Crowdmuse: https://twitter.com/crowdmuse

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:29 Rehash community governance

3:32 What are digiphysical goods?

5:55 How do digital and physical items link together?

7:48 How do onchain goods differ from offchain digital goods?

11:10 What is onchain IP and how does it work?

25:08 Why is consumer crypto all the rage now?

33:21 How will onchain consumer products change the way we view identity, community, and brands?

37:04 Challenges that digiphysical goods face

43:08 Origin story of Crowdmuse

47:05 Future plans for Crowdmuse

51:47 Who Maz wants to hear on the podcast next season

52:36 Eiman’s favorite crypto drama

54:48 Follow Maz and Eiman

Season 6 Trailer

Diana Chen — Tue, 3 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Season 6 of Rehash: A Web3 Podcast starts on Thursday, October 5, 2023 with new episodes every Thursday until December 21, 2023.

Season 6 will be pretty heavily focused on consumer crypto and creators, with a couple of more technical episodes sprinkled in there as well. Some names you might recognize are Luca Netz from Pudgy Penguins, Steph Alinsug, a repeat guest who’s now working on a new project called VESSEL, Maz and Eiman from Crowdmuse, and Hudson Jameson, a true Ethereum OG.

You can find the full guest list in our pinned post on Twitter @rehashweb3.

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rehash-a-web3-podcast

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ih4vN6lXKh4jt7VQYfjva

SEASON 6 SPONSORS:

Quests: https://quests.com/

Lore: https://lore.xyz/

LINKS:

Website: https://rehashweb3.xyz

Substack: https://rehashweb3.substack.com

Mirror: https://rehash.mirror.xyz

Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/channel/rehash.lens

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rehashweb3

Instagram: https://instagram.com/rehashweb3

TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@rehashweb3

Discord: https://discord.gg/9mrS8PmRh4

S5 E12 | Have We Peaked Yet? w/Raz

Diana Chen — Thu, 7 Sep 2023 14:22:30 +0000

On our final episode of Season 5, we’re speaking with Raz about a variety of topics ranging from building games for his siblings as a child to starting his own business at age 14 to forming anonymous relationships online and so much more. Raz is the CEO and co-founder of Guild, a membership management tool that helps you automate requirements, roles, and rewards for your community.

We start off by talking about Raz’s childhood - how he learned to program at the young age of 6 or 7, how he grew up designing board games for his younger siblings because he wasn’t allowed very much screen time to play the computer games he wanted to play, and how his love of all things games - the strategy, the lore, the escape into an alternative universe - all impacted his future decisions and successes as an investor and builder.

Raz made it big back in DeFi summer of 2020 and shares some of his best investment tips with us, like how to identify entry and exit points and how to stay objective in this space. He talks about how investing has helped him become a better builder and some of the things he’s still learning as a successful founder today.

We then get into a conversation around DAOs, how he defines what constitutes a DAO, and whether he thinks DAOs have peaked yet. I ask him about how Guild has been able to strike such a good balance between being a well organized successful company while running on a relatively very flat organizational structure and championing a lot of the ethos of DAO organization that typically tends to lead to chaos, and he attributes a lot of that to the thinking and work of his brother and co-founder, Bruno, who we’ll hopefully get on the podcast next season.

This was the perfect episode to end the season on and definitely one of my personal favorites. And I know I’ve been saying this a lot lately, but the fact is this season was probably my favorite one yet. It’s so inspiring to me that even in the midst of a bear market where sentiments around crypto and web3 are so low that there are still so many bright minds that are still so dedicated to building and furthering the potential that crypto and blockchain can have on the future of the internet.

We’ll be starting our next round of guest nominations and voting in a little over a week, so make sure you’re following us on Twitter @rehashweb3 or join our Discord community so you can stay up to date on all the happenings around that. If you don’t have a Rehash podcast NFT yet and want to help us decide our guests for next season, make sure you grab an NFT at https://www.rehashweb3.xyz/ before the next round of nominations starts, and if you have any questions, DM us on Twitter and we’ll help you out there.

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Raz: https://twitter.com/leadinscientist

Guild: https://twitter.com/guildxyz

SPONSORS

Livepeer: https://livepeer.org

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:50 Building board games as a child

7:26 How Raz got into crypto through Dogecoin

11:22 Biggest lessons learned from gaming

12:42 Becoming an investor before becoming a builder

21:47 Raz’s investment strategy

27:23 Raz’s hot takes about DAOs

29:57 Have DAOs peaked?

30:55 Is Guild a DAO?

31:30 DAOs vs corporations

34:01 Why Raz believes in Gen-Z so much

45:42 Questions from Twitter

53:59 Explain Your Tweet

1:01:07 Follow Raz

S5 E11 | Onchain Release Clubs w/Yancey Strickler

Diana Chen — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Yancey Strickler about the problems he sees with the creator economy and why onchain release clubs are a better framing for creative and collaborative work, and we discuss what a post-capitalist world might look like. Yancey is the co-founder of Metalabel and Kickstarter.

We start by envisioning what a post-capitalist world might look like and discussing how practical this model is in the world as we know it today. A lot of this part of the conversation stems from an article he wrote back in 2019 called Post-Capitalism for Realists, as well as his book, This Could Be Our Future.

We more or less agree that while it sounds really nice and idyllic to live in a world where we can all pursue our passions and fully live out our values without worrying about how we’re going to make money from everything we do, the reality is that we all need money to survive, and things are expensive, and it’s therefore an unavoidable part of life (at least in the U.S. and western world) to consider how your passions or objectives can be monetized and to dispense with activities that don’t monetize or at least spend a much smaller amount of your time on non-profit generating activities.

From there, we dive deeper into a conversation around the creator economy - a term that Yancey actually isn’t too fond of, and he explains why in this episode. He prefers to use a framing more analogous to release clubs or labels when thinking about creator collaboration and co-creation.

Even though the creator economy is probably one of our most talked about topics on this season of Rehash, I really appreciate that each of our guests has brought a different perspective to the table. The lens through which Yancey views the creator economy is certainly a unique one, and I’d love to hear what you think after listening to this episode.

Come find us on Twitter or Discord, or write us at rehashweb3@gmail.com and let us know what you think the future of the creator economy will look like. And don’t forget to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts and share it with any friends or family members who you think would enjoy listening as well.

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Yancey: https://twitter.com/ystrickler

Metalabel: https://twitter.com/Metalabel_xyz

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Livepeer: https://livepeer.org

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:45 Moving beyond a capitalist world

14:48 Are people less competitive now?

16:14 WAGMI era is long gone

17:49 Creative person’s hierarchy of needs

26:18 Does creator economy apply to content creators or artists?

31:42 Release club vs collective

35:31 Metalabel fall release

40:48 How Metalabel makes money

45:15 Biggest lessons learned from first 10 Metalabel drops

50:21 Has individualism made us less intuitive?

51:20 Individualism vs individuation

53:14 Explain Your Tweet

59:41 Follow Yancey

S5 E10 | Crypto Economy Meets Creator Economy

Diana Chen — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Thomas Scaria, co-founder and CEO of one of our sponsors this season, Lore, about the intersection of the crypto economy and the creator economy, why now is not the time to dismiss consumer crypto, and social experiences that can only be enabled by crypto.

As you’ve probably heard me say in past episodes, Lore is the co-ownership platform where you can seamlessly spin up a shared wallet, pool resources, coordinate group activity, etc which all probably sounds a bit vague and abstract.

That’s why I’m so glad we have an entire episode to hear more about some of the use cases Lore enables as well as some of the thinking that inspired Thomas to create Lore.

As we get deeper into our conversation about where the crypto economy meets the creator economy, Thomas weaves in concepts around gaming and financialization into our conversation around creators - topics you don’t usually hear talked about in the same sentence. It really just goes to show how interconnected all of these topics are and how multidisciplinary the web3 space has become.

We also dive into a conversation around consumer crypto, an area that has become somewhat neglected and almost dismissed by investors during the bear market. Having been actively involved in the consumer crypto space since 2018, Thomas brings an insightful and fresh perspective on why now is not the time to dismiss consumer crypto but rather to embrace it from a particular lens.

Thomas does a great job in this episode of illustrating concepts he discusses with real life examples, so you’ll find a pretty long list of projects in the links section below.

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Tom: https://twitter.com/tomscaria

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Livepeer: https://livepeer.org

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:53 Web3 as a new socioeconomic rails

6:22 Where crypto economy and creator economy intersect

11:02 Brand building in web2 vs web3

19:09 Context in DAO governance

21:13 Why consumer crypto is important in a bear market

25:33 Financial entertainment

30:20 Web3 social

35:10 Thomas’ advice to founders building in consumer crypto

39:34 Use cases for Lore

45:26 Explain Your Tweet

50:39 Alpha leak

S5 E9 | Current State of Crypto Regulation w/Rebecca Rettig

Diana Chen — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs, about the current state of crypto regulation around the world.

This is the first legal and policy focused conversation we’ve had on Rehash in over a year - the last conversation we had on crypto regulation was with Katherine Wu from Archetype and Crypto Council for Innovation all the way back in Season 2.

The main difference I wanted to touch on in this episode (other than just getting a more current take on where crypto regulation currently stands) is getting a more global perspective on how different countries or regions of the world are looking at crypto. Rebecca talks about key pieces of crypto legislation like MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets) in the EU and FIT (Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act) in the US and shares her perspectives on which countries have the most crypto friendly policies.

We focus most of the conversation on crypto policy, but we do chat a bit on the legal front as well. Rebecca talks about some key court cases we’ve seen recently in the U.S., such as the Coinbase case, and shares her take on what she believes the SEC’s strategy is and what that means for us as people building and working in the industry.

Finally we wrap up with some spicy questions from our community, like how to stay out of jail as someone building in web3 or whether crypto will ever succeed in the U.S.

Rebecca was nominated by Carsten and voted onto the podcast by Justin Conley, Katelyn Donnelly, Zayi Reyes, Meg Lister, Aaron Soskin, David Silverman, anon, and Carsten.

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Rebecca: https://twitter.com/RebeccaRettig1

TheValueProp: https://thevalueprop.io/

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Livepeer: https://livepeer.org

LINKS

Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA)
Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT)
Crypto435
TheValueProp
Get involved in policy: Email policy@polygon.technology

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

4:00 The shift from legal to policy

7:43 Infrastructure provider vs dapp provider

9:29 Non-financial use cases for crypto

10:02 High level overview of global crypto policy

14:49 Government 101 (US)

19:12 What is the SEC’s strategy?

20:39 People used to hate telephones

20:51 SEC’s lawsuit against Coinbase

24:57 What will happen to DAOs and NFT projects without legal protections?

26:36 Best advice for DAOs

29:20 Will the US ever embrace crypto?

30:56 Wyoming DAO LLCs

31:58 Which country’s laws apply?

33:48 Most important crypto legislation takeaways

36:06 How can I help push crypto policy forward?

38:37 Will crypto ever succeed in the U.S.?

39:25 Best places to live for web3 nomads

40:03 How to stay out of jail

42:51 Follow Rebecca

S5 E8 | Dissecting Identity, Reputation, and Trust w/Billy Luedtke

Diana Chen — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we are dissecting identity, reputation, and truth with Billy Luedtke, founder of Intuition, a full stack solution that allows anyone to claim anything about anything.

If that sounds cryptic to you, you’ll want to brace yourself because Billy and I go down countless esoteric rabbit holes in this episode about what our true identity is, how we know something to be true, and the ways in which technology is affecting our biological intuition.

Billy has been in the crypto space for over 10 years and has been working on various decentralized identity projects throughout this time as one of the earliest employees at ConsenSys and later a founder of Uport, one of the earliest projects in web3 focused on decentralized identity.

Many of the ideas we discuss in this episode are open to interpretation, and you probably have your own perspectives on these topics that differ from ours. I would love to hear your thoughts on these topics and open the conversation up to the community. Feel free to tag us on Twitter or join our Discord server and share your thoughts with us.

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Billy: https://twitter.com/0xbilly

Intuition: https://intuition.systems/

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

LINKS

The Evolution of Intuition
Web3 Identity Stack (Nich/1kx)

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:56 What is digital identity?

6:19 True identity vs digital identity

7:48 Dissecting true identity further

11:18 Billy’s biggest lessons learned about identity and reputation

14:01 What to attest to

16:26 Objective vs subjective truths

20:23 Intuition UI

24:55 What are the limits of human intuition?

26:39 Has technology ruined human intuition?

33:53 How to incentivize people to share their knowledge

45:35 What is Intuition?

46:34 Best apps to build on Intuition

55:11 Questions from the community

1:03:51 Explain Your Tweet

S5 E7 | Collectively Curated Onchain Radio w/Nick Hollins

Diana Chen — Thu, 3 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with fellow podcaster, Nick Hollins, about the creator economy, web3 communities, and building a collectively curated onchain radio at UFO. Nick is the creator of UFO and co-founder of Apollo, the creative lab that produces UFO.

The creator economy has grown in leaps and bounds since the early 2000s with the introduction of blogging, to Youtube’s emergence, to social media and influencer marketing. The more recent implementation of blockchain technology, cryptography, and what we now see as the overarching web3 space to the creator economy has introduced a plethora of new funding and ownership tools we never saw before.

Creators are now able to directly own and monetize their works, tokenize their intellectual property rights, share revenue with co-creators and collaborators transparently, automate payments, engage with their fans more meaningfully, and much more.

Our guest, Nick, comes from a traditional community radio background in Australia and now uses a lot of his learnings from that world to build UFO, which is aspiring to be an onchain radio and club for creators and consumers of media.

We talk about all of this and more and wrap up with an unexpectedly eerie explain your tweet segment at the end that triggers Diana’s deepest fears.

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Nick: https://twitter.com/nick_hollins

UFO: https://ufo.fm/

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

LINKS

Kabuki’s appearance on Rehash: https://rehash.mirror.xyz/1CKpkhPpEEq5det3EScI9OKrnljj26r-9o4CHoGEHC8
UFO Mirror: https://ufo.mirror.xyz/
Water and Music: https://twitter.com/water_and_music
Jack Butcher: https://twitter.com/jackbutcher
Lens: https://lens.xyz
Rehash Orb community: https://orb.ac/community/64b36efa6f90fe171ffae8c5
Rafa: https://twitter.com/rafathebuilder

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

04:05 Nick’s favorite web3 creator tools

9:24 What’s missing from the web3 creator stack?

11:21 Innovative incentive mechanisms

14:05 Why are people collecting media NFTs?

18:00 Do NFTs have utility?

21:17 Advice for creators to better engage with their fans

24:35 Skills all creators in web3 need to have

29:00 How web3 can benefit from media and how media can benefit from web3

32:53 Join the Rehash Orb community

34:03 Questions from the community

43:08 Explain Your Tweet

S5 E6 | Exploring NFTs in Art History w/Blake Finucane

Diana Chen — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Blake Finucane, Chief Strategy Officer at Emergent Entertainment and host of the Context Podcast with Boys Club, about the history of cryptoart and NFTs, strategies for NFT projects to succeed long term, and the role of NFTs in shaping the future of gaming. Emergent Entertainment is a leading metaverse and blockchain game studio.

Blake is one of the earliest researchers of NFTs (non-fungible tokens). While most people started learning about NFTs in 2021, Blake has been studying NFTs since 2016, years before the ERC-721 token standard for NFTs was developed in early 2018.

As a result of her innovative research on NFTs, she received a Canadian research grant to study at University of British Columbia, where she wrote her master’s thesis on how blockchain technology and cryptocurrency can be applied to the art world. It was one of the first ever academic theses to be published on crypto art, and we get to hear firsthand about it from the author in this episode.

We also spend some time talking about web3 gaming and the role of NFTs in games. Blake is currently working on a game called Resurgence through her company, Emergent Entertainment, and she has some refreshing takes about how games should (or shouldn’t) structure their token models if they want to be successful.

Blake has a wealth of knowledge and is so in tune with the culture of the space. She’s taken active steps to strike a balance between work and wellness, and she shares her best advice for achieving a healthy work-life balance while working in web3.

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Blake: https://twitter.com/blakefinucane

Context Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/context-views-on-crypto-and-culture/id1688280011

Resurgence: https://twitter.com/ResurgenceGame

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

LINKS

Blake’s Master’s Thesis: https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0370991
Boys Club: https://twitter.com/BoysClubWorld
S4 E6 | Art You Can’t See w/Sarah Meyohas & Mitchell Chan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMhXUlgS0NM
Bored Ape Yacht Club: https://twitter.com/BoredApeYC
Pudgy Penguins: https://twitter.com/pudgypenguins
Resurgence: https://twitter.com/ResurgenceGame
Loot: https://www.lootproject.com/
Context Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uIXnKpaN3TZ7WdkdyfwMu?si=975986c3ca864eb1

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:19 Living outside of the crypto bubble

7:34 Blake’s Master’s Thesis on NFTs

12:02 How AI has changed the NFT art world

19:47 How NFT projects have developed over time

22:01 The role of culture in shaping the NFT space

26:21 Where we should experiment with NFTs

32:22 Which aspects of web3 are attractive to gamers?

38:55 Questions from Twitter

48:10 Follow Blake

S5 E5 | Onchain World Building w/Peter Pan

Diana Chen — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Peter Pan, partner at 1kx, about how to identify successful early stage web3 projects, why certain NFT projects from the last bull run succeeded while others failed, and how we might be able to simulate real life physics in a digital environment. 1kx is an early stage investment firm that specializes in ecosystem growth.

One of the hardest things to do in this space is to separate the hype from what’s real, and Peter does a great job of explaining how he analyzes various web3 projects to determine which ones will last the test of time. While most investors focus on the standard rhetoric of - you want to look at who the founder is, who the team is, Peter’s thinking goes much deeper into what are the foundational layers of the project and what it’s aiming to accomplish, and what impact can this project have on the broader tech space (not just the web3 space).

We talk a lot about the role of community in shaping the success of a web3 project, and this led us down a rabbit hole of reminiscing and analyzing some of the NFT projects that rose to fame during the 2021 NFT craze. It’s really interesting to look back on some of the NFT projects I hedged my bets on back in 2021 and see where they are today (and how wrong I was about them).

Finally, we talk about autonomous worlds, onchain gaming, and why Peter is a proponent of being able to simulate real world scenarios in a digital sandbox environment. We wrap up with some hot takes on community building that Peter shared in seemingly contradictory tweets back in late 2021 - early 2022 and give him a chance to explain the context in which he wrote those tweets.

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Peter: https://twitter.com/pet3rpan_

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

LINKS

Metalabel: https://www.newcreativeera.com/
Cooper’s Writing NFTs: https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/
NFT Projects
- Squiggles: https://www.artblocks.io/collections/curated/projects/0x059edd72cd353df5106d2b9cc5ab83a52287ac3a/0
- Pudgy Penguins: https://www.pudgypenguins.com/
- Cool Cats: https://coolcatsnft.com/
- Degods: https://degods.com/
- Azuki: https://www.azuki.com/
- Doodles: https://twitter.com/doodles
DAOs
- Moloch DAO: https://molochdao.com/
- Nouns DAO: https://nouns.wtf/
Axie Infinity: https://axieinfinity.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:23 Identifying new web3 projects

9:50 How to sort through the hype

11:44 Learnings from successful and failed investments

15:17 Investing in a bull market vs bear market

16:36 What kind of innovation happens in a bear market?

18:43 History of NFTs

23:21 Future of media NFTs

29:02 Cool Cats vs Pudgy Penguins

35:32 What are autonomous worlds?

41:14 How to avoid Black Mirror type scenarios

42:47 Final thoughts from Peter

43:37 Explain Your Tweet

47:01 Follow Peter

S5 E4 | Designing Diverse Teams w/Kaitlyn Smith

Diana Chen — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Kaitlyn Smith, Chief Strategy Officer of Bankless, about common mistakes web3 teams make in hiring, the business case for building diverse teams, human centered design, and much more. Bankless is a crypto media organization that’s trying to help the next billion people go bankless.

Kaitlyn is an ops queen who - prior to working in web3 - worked at BlackRock, Ernst & Young, and obtained her MBA from Georgetown. She has a wealth of experience in the hiring and team building space and brings a grounded and sophisticated perspective to the often disorganized and chaotic world of web3.

This episode wouldn’t be complete without a brief conversation about mountaineering - something both of us love to do. Kaitlyn shares some of her biggest adventures, misadventures, and learnings, which include learnings on why we need more diversity not just in web3 but in the mountaineering world as well.

Kaitlyn is equal parts analytical and empathetic, and her balanced approach to her work and her life, combined with her clear communication style, makes this an extremely digestible and actionable episode.

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Kaitlyn: https://twitter.com/TheKaitSmith // https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynsmith/

Bankless: https://www.bankless.com/

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

LINKS

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:48 Tips for hiring high performing teams

7:00 Why web3 is bad at hiring

10:46 Hiring is like dating

12:27 What all high performing teams have in common

15:07 Do people shape culture or does culture shape people?

16:49 How to maintain work-life balance while working remote

20:03 Why diversity is important in hiring

21:42 Why diversity matters

25:18 Tips for hiring a diverse team

30:39 What is design thinking?

33:03 Areas of web3 media worth experimenting with

34:44 Do we need more crypto podcasts?

35:15 Bear market vs bull market content strategy

37:24 What is a Chief Strategy Officer?

38:35 What Kaitlyn’s excited to accomplish as CSO

40:32 Kaitlyn’s favorite mountain adventures

47:01 Explain your tweet

49:15 Follow Kaitlyn and Bankless

S5 E3 | Adding Spice to Venture Capital w/Maya Bakhai

Diana Chen — Thu, 6 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Maya Bakhai, founder and general partner at Spice Capital, about investing in web3, diversity in venture capital, the future of the creator economy, and more. Spice Capital is an early stage venture capital firm that is funding businesses solving problems for the next generation of internet-native consumers.

In our conversation with Maya, we talk about why she chose crypto, community, and capital as the 3 main categories for investment for Spice, what she believes is the largest unsaturated market in web3 investment right now, how she sees the creator economy evolving in the future, and much more.

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Maya: https://twitter.com/MayaBakhai or maya@spicecapital.xyz

Spice Capital: https://www.spicecapital.xyz/

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Livepeer: https://livepeer.org

Quests: https://rehash.quests.com/

LINKS

Hot Sauce: https://hotsauce.beehiiv.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

03:16 Definition of “internet native consumer”

05:48 Biggest problem with the internet

07:40 Solutions to this problem

08:34 The future of social platforms

13:37 Spice Capital’s investment thesis

17:55 Web2 vs web3 incentives

18:50 Different types of consumers

22:20 Individual creators vs brands

25:39 Largest unsaturated market in web3

28:15 How Spice Capital addresses diversity

35:13 The importance of culture in web2 vs web3

38:50 Guidebook to building a web3 business

42:58 Tips for web3 investors

46:19 Questions from the community

47:43 Explain your tweet

51:25 Follow Maya & Spice Capital

S5 E2 | Benefits of Liquid Staking w/html_tina

Diana Chen — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we have a highly technical conversation with html_tina about re-staking, liquid staking tokens (LSTs), oracles, slashing, and more. Html_tina is a Product Manager and Head of Governance at EigenLayer, a protocol built on Ethereum that introduces re-staking, a new primitive in cryptoeconomic security.

Tina does a great job of explaining these concepts in an easy to understand way, introducing playground analogies that even a 5 year old can understand. She also draws from traditional finance concepts like rehypothecation to further illustrate what liquid staking can enable.

On a more practical front, Tina shares her best tips for someone trying out liquid staking for the first time, including why it’s of utmost importance to find a liquid staking service that offers full decentralization and self custody.

Finally, Tina shares her views on the role of forking and rehypothecation in governance models and the potential benefits and drawbacks of the two within the context of a DAO.

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Tina: https://twitter.com/html_tina

EigenLayer: https://www.eigenlayer.xyz/

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Livepeer: https://livepeer.org

LINKS

S5 E1 | Competition, Community & Culture

Diana Chen — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:21:53 +0000

On our first episode of Season 5, we speak with Sirsu about competitive communities and culture through the lens of esports. Sirsu is one of the founders of BLVKHVND, an on chain esports organization that leverages innovative technology to compete globally and build open and accessible experiences for their community.

Sirsu shares some of his experiences with managing the community at BLVKHVND, including what he has done to foster an inclusive and welcoming community within the confines of competition and how he has handled conflicts that have arisen amongst community members along the way.

He also shares his thoughts more broadly on the role of leaders or facilitators within a competitive community, how that differs from a traditional competitive community to a decentralized one like BLVKHVND, and some web3 principles and tools he has incorporated into BLVKHVND that he thinks other competitive communities could benefit from as well.

Finally, we chat about one of Sirsu’s favorite topics: culture. Sirsu undertakes the challenge of quantifying culture with words and shares examples and analogies from daily life to help us better understand the nuances of various cultural movements in history.

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Sirsu: https://twitter.com/sirsuhayb

BLVKHVND: https://blvkhvnd.com/

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Lore: https://lore.xyz

LINKS

Season 5 Trailer

Diana Chen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Season 5 of Rehash: A Web3 Podcast starts on Thursday, June 22, 2023 with new episodes every Thursday until September 14, 2023.

This season, we had the most competitive guest selection period yet, with 45 highly qualified nominees vying for only 11 spots on the podcast. At the very last minute of the guest voting period, several of our community members came together to force a 6-way tie, bringing our total guest count to 13 instead of the 11 we had planned for.

Some names you might recognize from this season’s lineup include Peter Pan from 1kx and Metacartel, Sirsu from BLVKHVND, Nick Hollins from the UFO podcast, Kaitlin Smith from Bankless, and html_tina from EigenLayer. You can find the entire guest lineup for the upcoming season on Twitter at @rehashweb3.

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rehash-a-web3-podcast

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ih4vN6lXKh4jt7VQYfjva

SEASON 5 SPONSORS:

Lens: https://www.lens.xyz/

Quests: https://quests.com/

Livepeer: https://livepeer.org/

Lore: https://lore.xyz/

LINKS:

Website: https://rehashweb3.xyz

Substack: https://rehashweb3.substack.com

Mirror: https://rehash.mirror.xyz

Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/channel/rehash.lens

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rehashweb3

Instagram: https://instagram.com/rehashweb3

TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@rehashweb3

Discord: https://discord.gg/9mrS8PmRh4

S4 E15 | Building a Borderless Web3 Culture w/Feems

diana chen — Thu, 25 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sit down with Feems, Founder of Work on Chain to talk about global internet culture, internationalization and localization, how web3 can change the future of work, and how media can impact the crypto ecosystem.

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Feems: https://twitter.com/feemschats

EDITORS

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

LINKS

Web3 Professionals Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/36O1vFxtK3i8TfFGJIWy5F?si=6feb34052b2c41dd

Bankless: https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ

FWB: https://twitter.com/FWBtweets

ATX DAO: https://twitter.com/ATXDAO

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:51 Sponsors

6:01 Global internet culture

9:59 Characteristics of global culture

14:55 Web3 and culture

19:16 Web3 onboarding

22:50 Internationalization vs. localization

27:12 Web3 content for onboarding

39:12 The value of simple communication

43:51 Questions from the audience

52:56 Word association game

57:13 Outro

DISCLAIMER: The information in this video is the opinion of the speaker(s) only and is for informational purposes only. You should not construe it as investment advice, tax advice, or legal advice, and it does not represent any entity's opinion but those of the speaker(s). For investment or legal advice, please seek a duly licensed professional.

S4 E14 | How Web3 Empowers Independent Artists w/Ibn Inglor

diana chen — Thu, 18 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we caught up with recording artist, Ibn Inglor, to discuss the intersection of web3, music, and community building. Ibn has been involved in the web3 music space since 2021 when he launched a Mirror crowdfund to support the production of his EP, Danger Zone.

Ibn’s musical journey started during his childhood in Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens - a neighborhood he wouldn't leave until his later teen years. As he continued to pursue music, he also became interested in the web3 space and NFTs thanks to a tip from a friend. After taking time to learn more about blockchain and the underlying technology, Ibn decided to dive into web3 music in 2021. He has been creating and experimenting ever since.

During our discussion we talk about navigating web3 and all of its challenges as an artist, experimenting with new tech, the importance of forming authentic relationships, and Ibn gives new web3 creators some advice on how to get started in the space.

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Ibn: https://twitter.com/IbnInglor

EDITORS

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

LINKS

Pre-Save the Danger Zone EP - https://showtime.xyz/@IbnInglor/danger-zone-single-presave

Ibn’s Danger Zone Mirror Crowdfund - https://ibn.mirror.xyz/Y1iOKHIDyGm7LBUWokMCCzSTytQhWfngnYY6qkX2rQc

Why I’m Still Here Article - https://ibn.mirror.xyz/TyDB5JyQ0SLLe0KYvbz-n3KGc-MQiwP-ggJcxPTGh0o

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:15 Welcome Ibn!

6:15 Ibn’s Background

9:51 How Ibn got into web3

16:17 Navigating the crypto market as an artist

18:26 Forming real relationships with collectors and supporters

29:45 Ibn’s original Mirror crowdfund

36:42 Ibn’s upcoming EP, Danger Zone

38:52 Ibn’s future plans?

40:55 Challenges in web3 creative spaces

43:25 Ibn’s advice for web3 artists

45:46 Word association game

47:39 Follow Ibn!

48:20 Outro

S4 E13 | Decentralized Knowledge Sharing w/Sari Azout

diana chen — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sit down with Sari Azout, founder of Startupy to talk about Startupy (rebranding to Sublime in June 2023). We discuss the past, present and future of the internet, why the Wikipedia model is better than Google, the nuances of curation, and decentralized content.

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Sari: https://twitter.com/sariazout

Startupy: https://twitter.com/startupyworld

EDITORS

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

LINKS

Sari’s Substack: https://sariazout.substack.com/

Startupy Manifesto: https://beta.startupy.world/manifesto/

The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan - https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf

The Internet Wants to be Fragmented by Noah Smith - https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-internet-wants-to-be-fragmented

Ask Sari - https://beta.startupy.world/ask-sari/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

6:15 Knowledge sharing

10:44 The wiki model of the internet

14:47 Centralized vs. decentralized learning platforms

18:16 Issues with Google

20:22 Decentralized content curation

26:00 Curation quality

29:32 Startupy

33:19 How Startupy curates it’s curators

37:20 Sublime

39:03 Page rank on Startupy

41:12 Long form content

46:58 Ask Sari

50:00 Sari’s closing thoughts

51:34 Word association game

53:08 Follow Sari!

53:36 Outro

S4 E12 | Augmented Reality Social Layer w/Keiran Sim

Diana Chen — Thu, 4 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sit down with Keiran Sim, co-founder of Mirage to talk about augmented reality. We dive into everything Keiran is working on at Mirage, including AR social, persistent AR, the intersection of AR and web3, and the value of collecting digital media. He shares what Mirage is doing to combat harmful content as well as how Mirage is embracing decentralization, and we look to the future as Keiran shares his vision for AR in the coming years.

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Keiran: https://twitter.com/keirsim

Mirage: https://twitter.com/thismirage

EDITORS

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

LINKS

HYPER REALITY by Keiichi Matsuda: https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:48 What is Augmented Reality?

9:15 AR vs. VR

9:57 AR Social

16:28 Mirage

20:34 Sensoring harmful content

22:51 Decentralizing Mirage

28:25 Why collect digital media?

31:43 The future of AR

35:17 Closing thoughts

37:18 Diana’s Game

39:03 Follow Keiran

S4 E11 | Building for Emerging Nations w/Cami Ramos

diana chen — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sit down with Cami Ramos, the Head of DevRel at Fuel, an early contributor at DeveloperDAO, and creator of WBW3. We discuss the job of developer relations, account abstraction, the importance of crypto in LATAM countries, how to build a global community, and how necessity breeds innovation.

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Cami: https://twitter.com/camiinthisthang

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Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:02 Sponsors

5:14 Welcome Cami

6:12 Developer relations

8:55 How DevRel differs in web3 vs. web2

11:18 Talent DAOs

16:43 Global community building

20:01 How to give a community autonomy

21:56 Why Latin America is perfectly situated for innovation

29:23 Building for the real world

33:03 Change that's needed in web3

34:04 Account abstraction

37:29 What Cami is Most excited to see built

38:33 Audience questions

40:44 Word association game

42:19 Follow Cami!

LINKS

DeveloperDAO - https://www.developerdao.com/

WBW3 - https://twitter.com/womenbuildweb3

Fuel - https://www.fuel.network/

Manta - https://manta.network/

The Deadend of Eurocentric Crypto - https://mirror.xyz/camiinthisthang.eth/qUCbEGmphCHTYQVD27G_MFCL53tr96y3A3qqXt5l3ts

S4 E10 | One Year of Rehash w/Diana, Tyler, and Ellie

diana chen — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000

For our one year anniversary (!) guest hosts Anay Sim and LDF chat with Rehash creators Diana Chen, Tyler Internet, and elliedots to get a look behind the scenes of the Rehash podcast. We discuss crypto native media, the impact of AI on media creation, platformless media, and the value of a niche audience.

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Rehash: https://twitter.com/rehashweb3

Diana: https://twitter.com/ddwchen

Ellie: https://twitter.com/elliedots

Tyler: https://twitter.com/tylerinternet

Anay: https://twitter.com/anay_sim

LDF: https://twitter.com/ldf_gm

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

NFT.Storage: https://twitter.com/NFTdotStorage

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:57 Sponsors

5:20 Crypto-native media

7:43 Problems with web2 social platforms

9:43 Platformless content

10:54 Rehash’s backstory

18:08 The secret sauce to Rehash’s success

21:32 How Rehash has evolved

28:40 Advice for working in crypto media

32:18 Nothing is for everyone

39:37 AI

S4 E9 | Millions of Modular Blockchains w/Jimmy Chang

Diana Chen — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000

In this highly technical episode of Rehash, we sit down with Jimmy Chang, Co-founder of Catalyst, to break down some big brain topics in web3 and help listeners better understand blockchain technology.

Jimmy dives deep into the definition of a blockchain, as he explains the difference between monolithic blockchains, modular blockchains, and DAGs. He breaks down the 4 pillars of blockchain technology - execution, transaction ordering, settlement, and data availability and he explains how layer2s can manipulate those pillars to achieve a desired goal. We discuss topics like data availability problems and solutions, Rollups and RaaS, and Jimmy shares his vision of a million chain future.

We get the inside scoop on what Jimmy is working on at Catalyst, where he got his iconic hat, what he thinks of Ordinals, and some of his favorite experiments.

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Jimmy: https://twitter.com/0xJim

Catalyst: https://twitter.com/catalystamm

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

LINKS

Cata Labs: https://catalabs.org/

Hitchhiker's guide to Rollups as a Service: https://0xjim.medium.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-rollups-as-a-service-2e3438242ada

Celestia: https://celestia.org/

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:57 Sponsors!

5:10 Welcome Jimmy!
5:54 What is a DAG?

7:48 What is a blockchain?

13:43 What is a modular blockchain?

16:52 Execution, transaction ordering, settlement, and data availability

21:38 Data availability problems

23:37 Data availability solutions

25:57 A multimillion chain future

31:01 Rollups and RaaS

34:36 Catalyst

38:32 Jimmy’s experiments

40:56 Jimmy’s hat

42:50 Apps that would benefit from Catalyst

44:08 Jimmy’s thoughts on Ordinals

46:37 This or That game

48:13 Follow Jimmy!

S4 E8 | Sufficiently Decentralized Social Media w/Dan Romero

Diana Chen — Thu, 6 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash we sit down with Dan Romero, co-founder of Farcaster and Warpcast to talk about all things web3 social. We kick off the episode as Dan walks us through the evolution from web1, to web2, to web3 and he shares how web3 can utilize the best elements of web1 and web2 like permissionlessness and ease of use to create a better future on the internet.

To illustrate the potential of Farcaster and Warpcast, Dan explains the difference between an app and a protocol, breaks down the concept of sufficient decentralization, and shares the reasoning behind growing the Farcaster ecosystem slowly and intentionally. Tune in to hear Dan answer some questions from the community and leave listeners with the secret code for getting onto Farcaster.

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Dan: https://twitter.com/dwr

Farcaster: https://twitter.com/farcaster_xyz

Warpcast: https://twitter.com/warpcast_

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:39 Sponsors!

4:52 Welcome Dan!

5:36 The evolution of social media

9:11 The best of web1 and web2

11:52 Twitter vs. decentralized social

16:02 Farcaster and Warpcast

17:46 The evolution of Farcaster

22:20 Sufficient decentralization

31:12 What separates Farcaster from other web3 social protocols

40:00 Growing Farcaster slowly and intentionally

45:56 Questions from the community

54:15 Word association game

55:44 Follow Dan!

56:27 Outro

S4 E7 | Future of Independent Work w/Richie Bonilla

Diana Chen — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of rehash, we sit down with Richie Bonilla, co-founder of QUESTS and Clarity to talk about freelancing and his newest project, QUESTS. We discuss the challenges freelancers face today as well as the disadvantages of current popular freelance marketplaces. Richie shares his belief about peer reviews being a huge unlock for verifying the quality of freelance work, which through QUESTS, can help to connect the right freelancers with the right job opportunities.

Richie walks us through his personal experience as a freelancer which ultimately lead him to co-founding QUESTS, and we get the inside scoop on all that QUESTS provides for freelancers and project leaders alike. Before closing out our conversation with a quick game of word association, we think about the possibilities for freelance work in the future and how they might affect the future of work more broadly.

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Richie: https://twitter.com/richiebonilla

QUESTS: https://twitter.com/QUESTS__

Clarity: https://twitter.com/clarityteams

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

LINKS

Quests: https://quests.com/home

Boys Club: https://www.boysclub.vip/

Govrn: https://twitter.com/GovrnHQ

Seed Club: https://twitter.com/seedclubhq

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:52 Sponsors!

5:05 Welcome Richie!

6:06 Challenges of freelancing

9:56 Freelance Marketplaces

14:34 Peer reviewing for freelance work

19:31 The birth of Clarity and QUESTS

25:20 How QUESTS works

28:48 QUESTS NFTS

33:57 How QUESTS differs from Govrn

35:44 QUESTS for the future of work

37:38 The future of freelance work

40:48 The future or work more broadly

44:04 How to start using QUESTS

45:54 Word association game!

47:22 Follow Richie!

48:28 Outro

S4 E6 | Art You Can't See w/Sarah Meyohas & Mitchell Chan

diana chen — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sit down with Sarah Meyohas and Mitchell Chan, conceptual artists who experiment at the edges of web3 technology. You may know of Sarah from some of her projects such as Bitchcoin, Speculations and Stock Performance, and you might recognize Mitchell from some of his projects like IKB or Digital Zones.

We define what qualifies art as being “conceptual art” and we cover many aspects of AI generated art and how it could affect the art community at large. We discuss what web3 technology and tokenization can unlock for artists as well as some tips for marketing your work while remaining fully authentic. If you’re interested in the intersection of art and tech, or then this episode is for you.

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Sarah: https://twitter.com/SarahMeyohas

Mitchell: https://twitter.com/mitchellfchan

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

LINKS

Interview with Mitchell about IKB: https://youtu.be/l0sbHfcWBV8

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

1:11 Sponsors!

5:24 Welcome Sarah and Mitchell!

6:02 Defining conceptual art

11:49 Authorship of AI generated art

14:56 How AI is affecting art

22:14 Stock Performance by Sarah Meyohas

23:08 What tokens enable for artists

27:52 Sarah’s artistic exploration of glass

31:53 Working with Physical and Conceptual mediums

34:48 Creating for yourself vs. creating for financial income

41:52 How to market your work

46:24 What to look out for from Mitchell next

48:02 What to look out for from Sarah next

54:19 Outro

S4 E5 | Creating a Content Collective w/Frisson & Tommy

Diana Chen — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000

In this DAO focused episode we sit down with the Tally Guys - Frisson and Tommy, co-hosts of DAO Talk, and co-creators of Content Guild. We start by laying the framework for how we think of DAOs, and define what it means to be “decentralized” and “autonomous.” Frisson and Tommy walk us through the birth of Content Guild and explain why Tally opted for a Service DAO instead of a marketing department. We dive into the ins and outs of Content Guild, how it operates, and how it’s governed, explaining why you should be bullish on Tally, Content Guild, and of course, DAOs overall.

Frisson: https://twitter.com/0xfrisson

Tommy: https://twitter.com/tommylower

Content Guild: https://twitter.com/contentguildxyz

Tally: https://twitter.com/tallyxyz

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

LINKS

Tally: https://www.tally.xyz/

Content Guild: https://contentguild.xyz/

DAO Research Collective: https://daocollective.xyz/

Around the Blockchain Collective: https://aroundtheblockchain.substack.com/

Pride Punks: https://twitter.com/pridepunks2018

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:30 Welcome Frisson and Tommy!

6:47 Defining a DAO

8:32 Defining “decentralized” and “autonomous”

13:58 Hierarchy in DAOs

16:40 The birth of Content Guild

23:51 Why create a marketing Service DAO?

26:26 Content Agency vs. Service DAO

31:41 How Frisson found Content Creators

32:53 Vetting content

34:42 Content Guild’s governance

37:53 The future of Content Guild

41:26 How to retain talent

43:22 Word association game

48:34 Follow Frisson, Tommy, Tally & Content Guild

51:27 Outro

S4 E4 | From Vinyls to Music NFTs w/ Kabuki

Diana Chen — Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of rehash we sit down with Kabuki, a music producer who’s been navigating the music industry since the early 1990’s. Kabuki takes us through his music journey from web1 to web2 and now web3, sharing how he evolved as an artist throughout the changing times. We discuss how the ever-changing tech landscape has impacted the lives of artists, how music distribution has transformed throughout the decades, and how budding artists of today can take advantage of all web3 has to offer.

Kabuki: https://twitter.com/iamkabuki

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

LINKS

Kabuki’s site: https://linktr.ee/iamkabuki

Forefront: https://twitter.com/forefront__

Infracom: https://infracom.bandcamp.com/

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:45 Welcome Kabuki!

1:50 Behind the name Kabuki

3:14 Kabuki’s relationship with Japanese culture

6:11 Kabuki’s background

12:31 The turning point in Kabuki’s career

15:26 Adapting to changes in the music industry

17:22 The evolution of music distribution

21:06 Music industry in the 2000s and 2010s

27:31 The downside of web2 for music creators

30:31 Kabuki’s experience in web3

35:32 The future of web3 music

40:11 Tips for artists getting started in web3

46:16 Word Association game

47:29 Follow kabuki!

S4 E3 | Rules of Game Design w/ Andy Boyan

Diana Chen — Thu, 2 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, we sit down with Andy Boyan, founder of Infinity Keys, to talk all about games, game theory, and how games can push the web3 space forward by offering an alternative incentive mechanism that isn’t purely financial. We dive into Andy’s definition of a game, what differentiates a good game from a bad game, and discuss the psychology of play. Andy gives us the inside scoop on Infinity Keys, the many ways it can be used, and he drops some potential alpha on a possible rehash/ infinity keys collab in the future.

Andy: https://twitter.com/andyboyan

Infinity Keys: https://twitter.com/infinitykeys

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

LINKS

Infinity Keys: https://www.infinitykeys.io/

TexturPunx: https://twitter.com/texturepunx

Chainlink: https://chain.link/

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:43 Welcome Andy

1:24 How Andy got his onesie

3:35 Andy’s Background

5:37 What early game research got wrong about games

8:17 Andy’s definition of games

10:47 Gamifying web3

14:26 Psychology of play

15:45 Gamifying rehash

18:32 What differentiates a good game from a bad game?

25:02 Storytelling and narrative in games

28:57 Infinity Keys

30:02 How IK differs from learn-to-earn

35:30 Some rehash- Infinity Keys alpha

41:20 Aligning incentives

45:25 Closing thoughts

S4 E2 | Turning Users Into Owners w/dthinksweb3

Diana Chen — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, we sit down with dthinksweb3, founder of Designer DAO to talk about all things user experience and diversity in web3. We break down what web3 gets wrong about UX, how it could be improved, and the importance of user research. D also shares her experience designing for companies like Coordinape and Sushi as well as her experience as a woman of color in an industry typically dominated by white men. All of this plus the inside scoop on D’s favorite women-led projects, her hot take on DAOs, and much more!

D: https://twitter.com/dthinksweb3

Designer DAO: https://twitter.com/designerdao_

Coordinape: https://twitter.com/coordinape

Duality: https://twitter.com/dualityxyz

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

LINKS MENTIONED

Coordinape: https://coordinape.com/

Duality: https://duality.xyz/

Designer DAO: https://www.designer-dao.xyz/

Designer DAO Podcast: https://anchor.fm/designerdao

SheFi: https://twitter.com/She__Fi

Baddies in Tech: https://twitter.com/baddiesintech

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:02 Welcome D!

5:52 What's wrong with web3 UX?

9:19 User research

13:10 D’s experience in web3

19:37 Entering web3

23:16 Diversity in web3

28:26 How to embrace diversity

32:17 Ownership in web3

40:58 Word association game!

44:00 Follow D!

45:18 Outro

S4 E1 | Content Worth Collecting w/Reka & LDF

diana chen — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sit down with Reka from Guild and LDF from Disco and ldf.world to discuss their latest content adventure - Chaos. We break down the value of learning in public, the pain points of co-creation, and what makes content worth collecting. Reka also explains what it means to curate experiences and we explore the nuances surrounding community and audience building.

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Reka: https://twitter.com/reka_eth

LDF: https://twitter.com/ldf_gm

SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

Ambire Wallet: https://www.ambire.com/

EDITORS

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LINKS MENTIONED

Reka’s Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/reka.eth

LDF’s Website: https://ldf.world/

Mint Podcast: https://twitter.com/levychain
JokeDAO: https://twitter.com/jokedao_

Guild: https://twitter.com/guildxyz

Disco:

Season 4 Trailer

Diana Chen — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Season 4 of rehash is only 2 days away. Starting Thursday, February 16th, you can expect episodes to drop every week through the end of May. Our community voted in some incredible guests, so you can expect to hear from names like Reka, Dan Romero, Cami Ramos and more. We’re also excited to announce our Season 4 Sponsors: Lens Protocol, Ambire Wallet, and NFT.Storage.

This season, you’ll be able to collect each episode as a limited edition NFT which grants you DAO membership and the ability to nominate future guests.

To get involved with rehash, follow us on Twitter @rehashweb3, on Lens @rehash.lens and join our discord here: https://discord.gg/8YG4FQVQWj

S3 E15 | Privacy is a Public Good w/Henri Stern

diana chen — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sat down with Henri Stern, Co-founder and CEO of Privy. Privy helps you onboard crypto experts and beginners to your product. Regardless of whether you have a wallet, on desktop or mobile, you shouldn’t have to be an expert to get into the space and Privy makes it easy.

Henri comes from a highly technical background, nonetheless, he eloquently articulates complex topics in a way in which even web3 novices can understand and appreciate. We dive into cryptography, decentralization, cryptocurrency, and more as Henri shares how Privy is helping onboard new users and tackling the issue of privacy.

We also explore the nuances between things like privacy and transparency, privacy and UX, and risk and regulation. Henri shares how he’s “bullish on the bear market” and leaves listeners with some tips on how to maintain digital security.

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Henri: https://twitter.com/henri_stern

Privy: https://twitter.com/privy_io

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:40 Sponsors!

4:15 Welcome Henry!

4:34 Henry’s background

6:32 Cryptography

7:58 Cryptography and decentralization

10:10 Cryptography -> cryptocurrency

12:03 The birth of crypto

15:26 Great use cases for decentralization

17:34 The cost of decentralization

19:00 Decentralization and privacy

20:13 Issues with privacy in web2

23:24 UX vs. Privacy

33:00 Privy

39:34 UX of web3 apps

43:05 Risk and regulation

45:05 The future of crypto

51:33 Digital hygiene

53:15 Fun Questions!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E14 | Building a Human-Centered Web3 w/Paris Rouzati

diana chen — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash we sat down with Paris Rouzati, a web3 investor and advisor. Paris is heavily involved with marketing for Aave and Lens, where she organizes Raaves and leads the creation of Lens and Aave swag. Paris shares her web3 journey and gives listeners some insight into her investment thesis (or lack thereof) and calls out some amazing projects in the space.

We discuss marketing, paid marketing, growth strategies, and how marketing for a web3 native audience is quite different from web2. Paris gives us the inside scoop on how Lens and Aave go about creating swag that people actually love wearing, and throwing parties that everyone wants to attend. She shares how intentional the Aave and Lens teams are about community building and outreach, always maintaining a mindset of human-first-marketing-second, and of course, keeping it fun.

We also analyze the consumer and developer sides of web3 and discuss the importance of human-centered design. We talk about Lens, Farcaster and web3 social as a whole, as well the impacts of social media on mental health. Paris emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy mindset, sharing her tips for combating burnout - logging off, sharing how you’re feeling, and enjoying life outside of crypto.

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Paris: https://twitter.com/parisrouz

Aave: https://twitter.com/AaveAave

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:34 Sponsors!

4:09 Welcome Paris!

5:23 Paris’s background

7:55 Paris’s web3 journey

10:51 Cabbage NFTs

11:35 Standout NFT projects

13:45 Paid marketing in web3

15:26 Web3-native growth strategies

18:08 Aave and Lens swag

22:32 Raaves

27:48 Consumer side vs. development side of web3

33:14 Not all projects are meant for the masses

36:35 Web3 social & onboarding the masses

40:35 Web3 social and mental health

42:27 Paris’s investment thesis

44:29 Human-centered design

46:47 How Paris helps her founders

50:54 Maintaining a healthy mindset

54:26 Fun questions!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E13 | Access and Inclusion Through Policy w/Sumedha Deshmukh

diana chen — Thu, 8 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash we sat down with Sumedha Deshmukh from Crypto Council for Innovation to discuss the intersection of blockchain, policy, inclusion, and accessibility.

Sumedha first became interested in blockchain through the lens of how it could support international development. As a natural skeptic, she began researching blockchain on her own before turning her findings into a video guide for other development practitioners. Over the course of this project, Sumedha became even more interested in the blockchain space and later made the jump by joining the World Economic Forum’s Blockchain and Digital Assets team in 2018.

Diana starts off our discussion with a big question - wen meaningful policy? Sumedha explains how crypto’s history has been ironically plagued by barriers to entry and how that has impacted its adoption by the general public as well as its treatment by legislators. Although the space has developed drastically over the last decade, regulatory organizations are still waiting to see what real world impact blockchain could have before they give it more of their attention. Sumedha also gives us her thoughts around how policy makers could begin protecting consumers without stifling innovation.

During our conversation, we also dive into redistributing wealth and power, self custody, diversity in web3, and how mainstream news cycles influence crypto policy.

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Sumedha: https://twitter.com/sumdesh

CCI: https://twitter.com/crypto_council

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:34 Sponsors

4:09 Welcome Sumedha!

4:50 Sumedha’s background

9:50 Policy against bad actors in crypto

13:28 Protecting consumers without stifling innovation

18:21 Policy surrounding decentralization

24:54 Embracing crypto policy

29:08 Redistributing wealth and power with crypto

34:54 Diversity in web3

37:15 The perfect scenario for web3 policy

40:12 Fun questions!

46:35 Follow Sumedha!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E12 | Let's Talk About Mental Health in Web3 w/Satvik Sethi

diana chen — Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash we sat down with Satvik Sethi, Co-founder and CEO of Joincircle, a social media platform for web3. Satvik has been a mental health advocate since he was in middle school when he became the go-to person in his class to talk to when peers were struggling with mental health. He carried this passion for mental health advocacy with him through college and eventually found himself continuing to do so in the web3 space.

It’s no secret that those of us who work in and engage with the industry are susceptible to burnout, regardless of market conditions. Satvik addresses this and explains the importance of mental health in general, and specifically how it applies to the web3 space. We discuss the value of open conversation around politics and agree that removing politics from web3 is impossible, as much as we’d sometimes like to. Rather, we should (kindly) embrace sharing the opinions we have in order to move the space forward.

We switch gears to talk about SocialFi (which if you haven’t heard of it, don’t worry Satvik has you covered) and we discuss the “ultimate web3 social media platform,” Joincircle. Satvik shares his views on progressive decentralization and sufficient decentralization, saying it’s important for a project to start out centralized in order to be productive, but should still have its sight set on ultimately decentralizing and giving back to the community.

During our talk, we also touch on the topics of interoperability, fundraising, and ever-present FOMO.

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Satvik: https://twitter.com/sxtvik

Joincircle: https://twitter.com/joincirclexyz

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:27 Sponsors

4:02 Welcome Satvik!

4:35 Satvik’s background

5:54 Mental Health

10:25 Mental health in web3

13:42 FOMO in web3

18:09 Politics in web3

27:32 Destigmatizing mental health

31:45 SocialFi

33:43 Joincircle

38:41 Decentralization of joincircle

43:32 Collaboration with other web3 projects

45:37 Fundraising for Joincircle

50:46 Fun Questions!

58:03 Follow Satvik!

58:36 Credits

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E11 | The Ultimate Use Case for DAOs w/Aaron Soskin

diana chen — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0000

On this episode of Rehash, we sat down with Aaron Soskin, founder of Govrn. Govrn is a DAO contribution platform designed to enable DAOs to be defined by their contributors. By recording your contributions and allowing other DAO members to attest to those contributions, you can maintain ownership over your work and keep an on-chain record of the value you provide to DAOs.

In this DAO forward episode, we cover a variety of topics from rage quitting and politics to the ways in which Govrn can help DAOs and their contributors. Aaron stresses the importance of DAOs being defined by the emergent properties that arise as the result of contributors providing value, and we discuss how Govrn allows contributors to own their work and get more meaningful validation for the work they do. We discuss the pros and cons of rage quitting, and Aaron explains why he’s a rage quit maxi. He also explains why it’s important for DAOs to enable divergence and convergence and shares that rage quitting doesn’t have to be permanent.

We later explore the human aspect of DAOs and discuss the nuances of decentralization, acknowledging that technology can’t solve all human coordination issues. We discuss DAOs in the light of politics and what that intersection could look like. We acknowledge the recent events (FTX) and discuss what the future may hold for DAOs in the coming months and years - agreeing that not all DAOs need to be permanent.

Aaron closes with speaking so passionately that his mic crumbles, starting SexySongDAO, answering some fun questions, and leaving listeners with how to get started using Govrn.

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Aaron: https://twitter.com/AaronSoskin

Govern: https://twitter.com/GovrnHQ

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:28 Sponsors

4:03 Welcome Aaron!

5:16 Aaron’s background

8:56 Contributor first DAOs

11:11 Ownership over contributions

16:31 Recording contributions

18:25 Contribution language

20:42 LinkedIn for DAOs

24:50 Aaron is a rage quit maxi

29:21 Convergence and divergence in rage quitting

34:26 Humans, tech, and decentralization

37:34 DAOs and politics

41:54 SexySongDAO

45:30 Real life use cases for DAO

49:21 Why Diana likes DAOs

54:56 DAOs in the current bear market

1:03:48 Ephemeral DAOs

1:07:54 Fun Questions!

1:11:17 Follow Aaron!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E10 | The Evolution of Media w/Steph Alinsug

diana chen — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, we sat down with Steph Alinsug, Media Steward at Seed Club - an accelerator program for DAOs and DAO builders.

When Steph first heard about crypto from a podcast, the concept of DAOs and social tokens clicked for her right away. With previous careers as a branding specialist and a community organizer, she was always looking for a way to bring those two passions together. Web3 offered an opportunity to do just that.

Steph’s community-first branding approach lent itself nicely to her role at Seed Club, and she realized that the content she was creating wasn’t just content for the sake of marketing, but media that leveraged storytelling and community building to impact people with aligned values. This key difference is precisely what distinguishes content as we know it in web2 from the decentralized media of web3.

We dive into all of the nuances surrounding content, branding, marketing, media, decentralized media, web3 media, media in DAOs, and decentralized content creation. Although we use some of these terms interchangeably, Steph breaks down how she distinctly thinks about them, and we discuss Rafa’s project Folklore - a leading example of community-first media.

We double click on the human side of all of this as we discuss the inevitable hierarchy in DAOs, how media DAOs can progressively decentralize, ownership over the media you create, and the role curation plays in the decentralization of media. We also talk more broadly about conflict resolution and how imperative human to human relationships are as we explore new ways to organize ourselves and produce meaningful work in DAOs.

We close out our conversation with a few fun questions and Steph tells us how to find her and Seed Club on Twitter.

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Steph: https://twitter.com/cryptohun3y

Seed Club: https://twitter.com/seedclubhq

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:35 Sponsors!

4:11 Welcome Steph

4:58 Steph’s background

7:14 Web3 media

10:10 Web2 vs. web3 media

12:39 Web3 media, decentralized media, and media in DAOs

16:35 Decentralized media vs. decentralized content creation

21:05 Folklore

24:39 Ownership in decentralized media

28:16 Progressive decentralization of media

36:29 Relationships over actions

41:25 Hierarchy in DAOs

45:08 Fun Questions!

52:30 Follow Steph!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E9 | Building the Digital City of Cities w/Julia Rosenberg & Chase Chapman

diana chen — Thu, 3 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Rehash, we sat down with Julia Rosenberg and Chase Chapman from Metropolis to discuss all things DAOs, governance, and Metropolis.

Julia started learning about crypto after being frustrated with web2 scaling models in her startup journey, which eventually led her to co-founding Metropolis (previously Orca Protocol.) Chase fell down the crypto rabbit hole while working in marketing and data analytics. After graduating college she dove headfirst into the DAO ecosystem and started contributing to DAOs full time. She eventually started her own podcast, On the Other Side, where she talks about the human aspects of web3. Eventually she met Julia and fell in love with Orca Protocol (now Metropolis) before joining the team there.

Julia and Chase lay some groundwork for the episode by defining governance, not only in the DAO ecosystem, but much more broadly. We compare DAOs to digital cities and discuss the transition from corporate structures to DAOs, which transfers more ownership to members and gives them more autonomy over their work. We touch on the complexity of DAOs, the ways in which they are failing, the ways in which they can benefit humanity, and how Metropolis is enabling them to achieve better governance.

Julia and Chase explain the Metropolis rebrand and help listeners understand how the protocol works on a very basic and tangible level. We discuss the importance of organizations being human centric and scalable, and the two share how they have seen DAOs evolve as well as how they think they’ll evolve in the coming years.

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Julia: https://twitter.com/JulzRoze

Chase: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman

Metropolis: https://twitter.com/0xMetropolis

Otherside Pod: https://www.othersidepod.xyz/

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:32 Sponsors!

4:07 Welcome Julia & Chase!

4:26 Julia’s background

5:50 Chase’s background

8:32 Governance in digital spaces

11:50 Corporate models vs. DAOs

13:52 DAO governance is hard

17:07 Digital cities

23:00 Sovereignty in DAOs

27:01 Orca rebranding as Metropolis

29:55 Human centricity in DAOs

35:04 How Metropolis works

38:40 The evolution of DAOs

50:17 Fun Questions!

57:54 Follow Julia and Chase!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E8 | You Can't Buy Community w/Parker Jay-Pachirat

diana chen — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Parker Jay-Pachirat is Head of Community and on the Investment Team at Fintech Collective, a DeFi investment firm. She is also part of the Founding Team of Boys Club, a community and DAO helping women and non-binary individuals navigate web3.

Parker had a pretty untraditional journey into web3, with a background in humanities and having studied critical theory at a liberal arts college. However, when Parker first learned about blockchain technology, she was so hooked that she decided to pursue a career as a crypto VC, and against all odds, she broke into her dream industry.

We dive right into the episode by discussing off chain influences on DAO governance. Parker believes that code isn’t law (despite popular belief) and embraces the nuances of humanity in complex decision making. She believes that by utilizing off chain influences for the greater good of the DAO, you can actually create healthier governance models and more authentically represent the will of the DAO. We discuss the pros and cons of anonymous voting, and issues surrounding social capital, voter apathy, and token voting in general.

Parker believes that there’s no one right way to structure a DAO, but instead thinks deeply about how DAO structure and governance can be implemented differently to best serve the unique purpose of individual DAOs. At Boys Club, Parker is directly overseeing the process of turning Boys Club into a DAO and she’s spent the last 11 months researching, creating, and implementing a structure and governance system that is specifically tailored to Boys Club.

Parker’s shares what she’s most excited about as a VC - zero knowledge proofs and rollups. We also dive into how Parker distinctly differentiates marketing from community, with marketing being something you can purchase and community being something that is priceless. Parker shares her thoughts on post humanism as it relates to blockchain technology and inadvertently discloses that she is a Neuralink maxi.

Through some fun closing questions we learn a little bit more about Parker personally - she loves StarkNet, her job(s), Boys Club forking, and the city of Berlin.

🔗 FOLLOW US

Parker: https://twitter.com/parkerjayp

FinTech Collective: https://twitter.com/fintech_io

Boys Club: https://twitter.com/BoysClubCrypto

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:40 Sponsors!

4:14 Welcome Parker

8:35 Nuance in web3 communities

5:00 Parker’s background

11:16 Social Capital and off chain influence

15:09 Anonymous voting

16:53 Issues with token voting

19:48 The ideal DAO structure

24:39 Turning Boys Club into a DAO

30:08 How Parker became a VC

36:22 Parker’s investment thesis

40:23 Marketing vs. Community Building

43:59 Post humanism and blockchain tech

49:16 Diversity in crypto

50:30 Rebrand anything in wbe3

51:18 Systems first, DAO tools second

53:29 Community first, tokens and DAOs second

54:54 StarkNet

1:01:08 If Boys Club were another entity

1:01:30 Boys Club fork!

1:02:14 If money were no issue

1:02:25 Biohacking

1:04:38 If Parker could live anywhere in the world

1:06:28 Follow Parker!

1:08:14 Shoutouts!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E7 | Rethinking Identity & Reputation w/Evin McMullen

diana chen — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Evin McMullen is the CEO of Disco, a toolkit that allows users to own and control their data and digital identity. She’s also an active member of DAO Jones, Boys Club, and one of the OG members of $INK DAO.

If you’re interested in digital identity, verifiable credentials, or decentralized identifiers, this episode is for you and Evin has got you covered. We start by defining digital identity to lay the groundwork for listeners who may be new to the space and we cover Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity and how blockchain companies can improve user experience by implementing them more consciously.

Now that we have some context, we hit the ground running and Evin dives deep into off-chain vs. on-chain data storage, off-chain vs. on-chain reputation, Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), Verifiable Credentials (VCs), and how these technologies can help bring some humanity and understanding to the highly technical world of web3.

We discuss identity more broadly and Evin shares her analogy between identity and a disco ball. We touch on topics like social capital, reputation, tattoos, identity in DAOs, and discoverability in web3. Evin shares how disco helps users control and own their digital identity with their personalized disco data backpack, and the ways in which disco is exploring monetization.

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Evin: https://twitter.com/provenauthority

Disco: https://twitter.com/discoxyz

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

5:04 Evin’s background

6:43 Defining digital identity

7:02 Kim Cameron’s 7 Laws of Identity

9:24 How blockchain companies can improve utilizing the 7 Laws of Identity

12:24 Off-chain data storage

14:41 Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)

16:03 Verifiable credentials (VCs)

19:40 On-chain vs. off-chain reputation

25:18 The Disco Ball identity analogy

28:56 Evin’s ERC-721 tattoo

31:33 DAOs and identity

35:35 Disco and VCs

38:01 Social capital and reputation

40:08 Launching Disco

44:16 How Disco makes money

47:54 Discoverability in web3

50:38 Rebranding seed phrases

51:33 I’m not a bot

52:50 Britney Spears

53:33 The Metaverse

54:13 Follow Evin!

54:36 Shoutouts!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick

diana chen — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000

In this DAO-heavy episode, we sit down with nintynick, a core contributor at Hats Protocol, to discuss all things decentralization, AI, and coordination.

Nick initially got into coding and finance with the goals of working in gaming, but has since pivoted whole-heartedly into the web3 space.To lay some groundwork, he tells listeners how he defines a DAO. We then dive right in by comparing DAOs with traditional companies, analyzing when a traditional company should and should not decentralize, and we flesh out the ins and outs of progressive decentralization.

Nick shares his thoughts on how to successfully start and maintain a DAO, emphasizing the need for values alignment. Nick is quite bullish on DAOs and believes that by 2034 (we forced him to pick a date) DAOs will become more effective than traditional organizations.

Digging deeper into the intersection of AI and tech, Nick explains agent-based modeling in AI, and we explore the automation of work, automated constrained delegation, Hats Protocol, and compare AI to human capability.

🔗 FOLLOW US

nintynick: https://twitter.com/nintynick_

Hats Protocol: https://twitter.com/hatsprotocol

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:31 Sponsors!

5:16 Nick’s background

8:18 Nick’s DAO definition

10:32 Traditional companies becoming DAOs

13:03 Companies that should not decentralize

14:54 When are companies better than DAOs?

17:51 Progressive decentralization

21:27 Progessive decentralization roadblocks

23:54 How to DAO successfully

25:56 Values alignment

28:11 When will DAOs surpass traditional organizations?

34:00 Agent based modeling in AI

36:37 Automation of work

40:05 Automated constrained delegation

42:43 AI and Hats Protocol

45:13 Humans vs. AI

50:31Fun questions!

54:52 Follow Nick!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz/

Avenue: https://avenue.place/

Govrn: https://govrn.app/

S3 E5 | How to Avoid Crypto Scams w/Taylor Monahan

diana chen — Thu, 6 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Taylor Monahan is Product Lead at MetaMask, a crypto wallet and gateway to blockchain apps.

As an early crypto adopter, Taylor has watched almost every cycle of crypto come and go. About a year after the Ethereum presale, she learned there were real blockchain apps popping up on the Ethereum blockchain. And even in these early days, she recognized the industry’s need for something critical — better wallets.

Taylor pivoted into working on creating her own wallet with a more user-friendly interface and….actual buttons and stuff. This turned into MyCrypto, which was later bought by MetaMask. Taylor has been building web3 tooling and working on making wallets easier to use ever since.

During our discussion with Taylor, we dive into wallet security and cover basic wallet 101 info. She runs us through some best practices and ways in which your wallet can become compromised, as well as how a recovery phrase/seed phrase works and how to prevent attacks.

Taylor also shares how she almost got scammed, Diana shared how her sister did get scammed, and we go over the importance of double checking, triple checking, and gut checking before you sign a transaction. Taylor also informs us of some steps you can take to cross-examine the validity of whatever site you are interacting with.

Finally, Taylor shares how the web3 space (and wallets in particular) have evolved over the years of her long and successful career, and she leaves us with some spicy hot takes on the future of web3.

🔗 FOLLOW US

Taylor: https://twitter.com/tayvano_

MetaMask: https://twitter.com/metamask

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:30 Sponsors!

4:10 Rehash: A Little Pod of Happiness

5:43 Taylor’s background

9:02 Using Ethereum in the early days

11:04 Wallet 101

14:48 Wallet security best practices

17:10 Wallet compromisation

18:35 MetaMask accounts and recovery phrases

21:24 How to prevent attacks

25:00 A scam Taylor almost fell for

28:01 How to double, triple, and quadruple check before you sign a transaction

33:00 The evolution from My Ether Wallet to MetaMask

38:57 How Taylor’s perspective on web3 safety has changed over the years

42:03 Taylor’s hot takes

48:54 Follow Taylor!

51:47 Shoutouts!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz

S3 E4 | CC0, Creator Royalties, and Storytelling in Web3 w/Simon de la Rouviere

diana chen — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Not only is Simon De La Rouviere the founder of Untitled Frontier, which explores the intersection of storytelling and web3, but he is also an early Ethereum developer who worked on creating the ERC-20 token standard. He’s also a science fiction writer and author of “The Hoperunners of Gridlock” which you can check out in the links below.

We dive into the intersection of web3 and the creator economy, and Simon shares his thoughts on the ways in which web3 technology can empower creators to more directly interact with their fans. We touch on Li Jin’s theory of the 100 true fans, and Simon describes what he would like the future creator economy to look like.

We discuss CC0, and the ways in which web3 is changing IP models for the benefit of creators. We also talk about creator royalties and how they should be utilized correctly. Simon shares his first hand experience as a creator when he wrote “Hoperunners of Gridlock” and we compare web2 and web3 creator monetization models. Simon shares his thoughts on the current narrative of web3 and highlights what he thinks web3 marketers should focus on.

We get the inside scoop on Simon’s latest project, Untitled Frontier, which is a platform for fiction writers to sell NFTs related to their stories, and something SImon is so passionate about that even if he had all the money in the world and never had to work another day in his life, he would still be dedicating his time to it.

🔗 FOLLOW US

https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Runners-Gridlock-Simon-Rouviere-ebook/dp/B08GY96CFR/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?crid=21V93ABGQCVR2&keywords=The+Hoperunners+of+Gridlock+by+Simon+De+La+Rouviere&qid=1664393542&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjEyIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=the+hoperunners+of+gridlock+by+simon+de+la+rouviere%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-1-fkmr1

Simon: https://twitter.com/simondlr

Untitled Frontier: https://twitter.com/un_frontier

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

0:38 Sponsors!

4:47 Simon’s background

9:39 Web3 and the creator economy

13:33 Web3 creators

16:45 CC0

17:42 The BAYC IP model

19:29 CC0 benefiting creators

23:40 Royalties

25:00 Simon on writing The Hoperunners of Gridlock novel

28:54 Web2 vs. web3 creator monetization models

30:54 The web3 narrative

35:27 Untitled Frontier

40:49 Rebranding web3, what Simon needs you to build, eagles and more!

43:49 Follow Simon!

44:17 Shoutouts!

🤝 SPONSORS

Lens Protocol: https://lens.xyz/

Avenue: https://avenue.place/

Govrn: https://govrn.app/

📚 The Hoperunners of Gridlock

S3 E3 | Experimenting With New Media Models in Web3 w/Daisy Alioto

diana chen — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Daisy Alioto is the co-founder of Dirt, a daily(ish) newsletter about entertainment online that uses NFTs for community participation and governance.

With over a decade of experience working in audience development at tech startups and companies like Time Inc, Daisy is well versed in content, editorial, marketing, community building, and more. This background prepped her to see the potential in web3 early on, as she was already familiar with the wide breadth of media structures that have popped up throughout the digital media boom. So when she decided she wanted to start a digital media project of her own, she and co-founder Kyle Chayka brought those traditional building blocks together with NFTs and web3 tech. Dirt was born.

Today, Dirt consists of a newsletter, NFT art editions and a growing community of readers and token-holders. The project is carving out a space for ‘weird but intelligent’ content and giving community members options for how deeply involved they want to be - from occasional consumers to collectors and curators.

During our conversation with Daisy, she walks us through the rapidly changing digital media landscape. She explains the troubles with our reliance on digital ads and platforms, the idea of product-audience fit, and the opportunities in web3 for media to be more community supported. While she is deeply familiar with digital media’s current issues, she is optimistic about its future.

We also discuss being a media-first brand, decentralized content creation, and the role that traditional marketing techniques play in web3. Finally, Daisy gives us her thoughts on where she sees media and social networks heading, and gives us a reason to go back and play Candyland again.

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0:00 Intro

0:30 Sponsors!

4:40 Daisy’s Background

6:43 Web3 media

9:21 New revenue models

13:14 NFT analytics & Bello

16:43 Web3 tech in the background

20:51 Dirt’s audience & Dirt Wire

23:58 NFT projects need content

27:33 Building media into your brand

30:20 The value of media

32:08 Dirt’s NFTs and DAO

36:31 Community tastemaking

40:03 Decentralized content

42:33 Future media models and social networks

45:36 Rebranding “soulbound”

47:11 Daisy isn’t a hater

48:46 Twitter NFT bots, mud monsters, and following what you love

53:00 Follow Daisy!

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S3 E2 | Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps

diana chen — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000

On this Episode of Rehash, we sat down with David Phelps. On top of being the founder of JokeDAO and an investor at Cowfund, David is also a writer, thinker, and talented shitposter.

Contrary to what his boyish looks might suggest, David is a boomer who spent his prior life in the web2 and education spaces. After starting a tutoring agency that gave tutors a much larger slice of the revenue pie, David found his way into the web3 DAO space. Today, he continues to focus on projects that give creators and users the ownership and compensation that they deserve.

JokeDAO is an on-chain governance platform used by web3 projects (including Rehash!) to create and run contests in a fair, decentralized manner. In the short time since it popped up, JokeDAO has been used by other creators like Packy McCormick and organizations like Tally and Jukebox to give their communities a stronger voice in what they’re making.

As someone who spends much of his time thinking about and working on governance, David brings us on a deep dive into its nuances. We discuss the role of tokens in voting and online communities, why governance should be chaotic, and some of the unique challenges JokeDAO has faced. David also tells us about the intricate ways that JokeDAO could be used to create more community-aligned proposals and decisions.

Aside from governance, David explains the potential of blockchains and projects like Cosmos and Celestia, gives his bullish argument for web3, and breaks down what he looks for when investing in the space.

For good measure, we also make plenty of cow jokes, we take a look at the line between governance and moderation, David shills Cosmos, and he explains why beavers (real ones, not from cartoons) should be the official symbol of JokeDAO.

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0:00 Intro

0:30 Sponsors!

4:48 David’s background

11:54 Disclaimer

13:09 Fun use cases for JokeDAO

20:36 JokeDAO’s randomization feature

21:53 Governance as content moderation

25:11 Down-voting

27:50 Non-financial tokens

34:18 Blockspace, token pricing, and proof of stake

40:43 Cosmos and blockchain potential

48:24 David’s investment thesis

59:58 Follow David!

S3 E1 | Best Practices for Operating a DAO w/Dennison Bertram

Diana Chen — Thu, 8 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000

On this Episode of Rehash: a web3 podcast, we sat down with Dennison Bertram, founder of Tally, a DAO operations platform. Dennison is also the #2 backer from our initial Mirror crowdfund and, as a result, one of Rehash’s Queen of the Pod. Thank you Dennison!

Dennison has been in the crypto space since 2012, earning himself true OG status. Although he was a self-proclaimed Bitcoin in his early days, he’s now Ethereum-pilled and building Tally across several blockchains.

In a DAO-heavy discussion, we dive deep into the challenges DAOs are facing, particularly around operations. We dive into what it means to be a DAO, how to set one up correctly, and Dennison gives us some DAO best practices. We also talk about “fake” DAOs and how bad actors are coming into the space to get DAO recognition, but not truly behaving like a DAO when things go south.

We compare DAOs with traditional companies and analyze some of the challenges they both face. Dennison also shares his views on decentralization maxis as well as the controversial topic of what DAOs can learn from corporations.

Dennison leaves us with some final thoughts around what he’s most bullish about, most bearish about, and what excites him the most about the future of DAOs.

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